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Down and Dirty: the Tunnel Rats of Vietnam

04/28/2017 57 Comments

If you ever see a flashlight coming your way, you can fire away, but more than likely, you are already a dead man.1 January 7,

The Dalton Gang won’t Ride Again: The Coffeyville Raid of 1892

04/03/2017 41 Comments

It was October 5, 1892. Three men wearing fake beards and wigs stood inside the C. M. Codon & Company Bank of Coffeyville Kansas, brandishing

Have Fun, Will Travel: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show

02/12/2017 23 Comments

In 1883, William “Buffalo Bill” Cody, famous frontiersman, army scout, and buffalo hunter, opened the doors of his Wild West Show for the first time.1

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