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Texas Ranger

To Hell and Back

Captain

by Tom Clavin

Below is an excerpt from my new book, Follow Me to Hell. It is…
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A Connecticut Yankee In Texas

by Tom Clavin

This year is the bicentennial of the Texas Rangers, who played a significant…
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Learning the Ropes: The Early Years of a Texas Ranger “Great Captain”

by Joe Pappalardo

On July 26, 1887, Sgt. James Brooks listens to the jury foreman declare…
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Frank Hamer and the Texas Bandit War of 1915

by John Boessenecker Extremely modest and humble, Frank Hamer left behind but scant correspondence and no…
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Texas Ranger

The Centennial Fire

Centennial

by Chris Wimmer

dd The first World’s Fair on American soil ran from May 10 to…
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War and Reconciliation

war

by Tom Clavin

dd Douglas “Pete” Peterson was born in Omaha and raised in Nebraska and…
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The Rise of the Weimar Republic

Sparticist

by Susan Ronald

dd In the following excerpt from Hitler's Aristocrats, author Susan Ronald discusses the…
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Crary of the North…and South

Albert

by Tom Clavin

dd  It was on May 3, 1952, that a plane landed on the…
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Meet the White House Plumbers

Justin

by Egil "Bud" Krogh and Matthew Krogh

dd by Laura Dail and Matthew Krogh HBO's new miniseries White House Plumbers imagines the story…
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A Long Journey Home

Arizona

by Tom Clavin

dd During my recent book tour promoting the release of Follow Me to…
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The Windsors at War

Duke

by Alexander Larman

dd When I finished writing The Crown in Crisis, the book that has…
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Old Houses of the West

Where

by Sandra Dallas

Novelist Sandra Dallas joins us to discuss the inspiration behind her latest book,…
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