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Gettysburg Had a Lasting Impact on Its Least Known Participants — Its Civilians
.image-13795697 { max-height: 100%; --left: 37.86%; --top: 46.66%; } Although only minor National Park Service signage alerts you to the boundaries of the vast Gettysburg battlefield at its outer...
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Dan Sickles Insisted that His Gettysburg Antics Saved the Union. Was He Right?
.image-13795685 { max-height: 100%; --left: 58.03%; --top: 50.20%; } “It was either a good line, or a bad one, and, whichever it was, I took it on my own responsibility….I took up that line because it...
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She Was Romantically Linked to the ‘Sundance Kid’— But Much About Her Remains...
.image-13796296 { max-height: 100%; --left: 49.74%; --top: 16.52%; } Who was Etta Place? She was the lover and perhaps wife of Pennsylvania-born Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, aka the “Sundance Kid,” and a...
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What Made Milwaukee Famous? This Blue Ribbon Beer
.image-13797395 { max-height: 100%; --left: 50.50%; --top: 61.52%; } Pabst Mansion location map. Frederick Pabst was captain of a Great Lakes steamer when Maria Best came aboard his ship and caught...
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This British Colonel Traveled with Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg. He’d Already...
Arthur James Lyon Fremantle left Great Britain aboard a ship on March 2, 1863, headed for the northern border of Mexico. After a long voyage, the young British army officer finally arrived on April 1...
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To Depict the Frontier Era with Authenticity, This Artist Walks in the...
.image-13796320 { max-height: 100%; --left: 41.73%; --top: 48.19%; } A historian with a brush and a palette, David Wright considers it his mission to depict America’s frontier era with precision. “We...
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Civil War Generals Never Forgot the Blood and Lost Friends in the US Showdown...
.image-13795706 { max-height: 100%; --left: 55.77%; --top: 58.12%; } In September 1861, while stationed in Paducah, Ky., Private John H. Page of the 1st Illinois Light Artillery received notice that...
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Lies and Subterfuge: There’s More to the Story Behind Seven Pines
.image-13795727 { max-height: 100%; --left: 69.46%; --top: 52.62%; } “No action of the civil war has been so little understood as that of Seven Pines,” Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston would...
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Buffalo Bill Delighted Italian Fans by Bringing His Wild West Across the...
.image-13796551 { max-height: 100%; --left: 59.28%; --top: 61.89%; } To this day virtually everyone in the United States has heard of William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody. Even those not expert or...
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The Novel ‘Knork’ Helped Civil War Amputees Eat
.image-13796648 { max-height: 100%; --left: 22.65%; --top: 47.51%; } By the end of the Civil War, it is estimated that surgeons on both sides had conducted roughly 60,000 amputations. With the...
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This Mining Boomtown Was Unique for What It Did Not Have — Namely Saloons,...
.image-13796322 { max-height: 100%; --left: 32.95%; --top: 46.97%; } By the early 1850s gold fever had spread across the American West. Southwestern Oregon Territory was no exception, as placer miners...
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For Southern Antagonists in the Civil War, a Kindred Desire for Peace Goes Awry
.image-13797046 { max-height: 100%; --left: 53.15%; --top: 22.64%; } On December 18, 1860, John J. Crittenden of Kentucky introduced a compromise plan to the U.S. Senate. Just two days later, South...
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The Poignant Tale Behind a Celebrated Civil War Sketch
.image-13797384 { max-height: 100%; --left: 56.52%; --top: 12.08%; } Odds are there isn’t a Civil War buff living who hasn’t seen a copy of this remarkable pencil sketch (above) by special artist...
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This Quiet Missionary Survived the Lincoln County War to Live Among the Zunis
The Rev. Dr. Taylor Filmore Ealy faced many struggles, most not of his own making, while a Presbyterian medical missionary between 1874 and 1881—first at Fort Arbuckle, on the Chickasaw Reservation in...
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Oscar Wilde Bothered and Bewildered Westerners While Touring to Promote...
.image-13796441 { max-height: 100%; --left: 31.27%; --top: 15.34%; } Of all the city slickers ever to venture into the 19th century American West, Oscar Wilde towered above the rest, preening like a...
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As the Boxer Rebellion Stole Headlines from His Wild West, Buffalo Bill Put...
Fresh from robbing the Deadwood Stagecoach, the Sioux performers of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West changed into loose-fitting Chinese garb and attached long single braids to the backs of their heads,...
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This Victorian-Era Performer Learned that the Stage Life in the American West...
.image-13796482 { max-height: 100%; --left: 44.44%; --top: 22.81%; } The California Gold Rush. The very words evoked the strong reaction of an American populace driven by adventure and a lust for easy...
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The One and Only ‘Booger’ Was Among History’s Best Rodeo Performers
.image-13796414 { max-height: 100%; --left: 44.18%; --top: 28.38%; } The horse was once as essential to Western life as the six-gun, and breaking horses was once a necessary skill, even a business for...
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10 Pivotal Events in the Life of Buffalo Bill
.image-13796758 { max-height: 100%; --left: 54.92%; --top: 29.55%; } 1. Cody Family Moves to Kansas Will was born in Iowa Territory in 1846. In 1854 father Isaac moved the family to Kansas Territory...
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Seminoles Taught American Soldiers a Thing or Two About Guerrilla Warfare
The word “Seminole” is derived from the Muscogean word simanó-li, or “runaway,” reflecting a common heritage, as Upper Creeks from Alabama, Lower Creeks from Georgia, other affiliated tribes and...
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