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Wild Bill

The Gunfighter and the Explorer

by Tom Clavin

151 years ago, a journey to Africa began that would garner international fame.…
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Friendship in the American Frontier: Wild Bill and Buffalo Bill

by Tom Clavin

They were the two most famous plainsmen of the American West, and they…
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The Softer Side of Wild Bill Hickok

by Tom Clavin

It should surprise no one that Wild Bill Hickok was a ladies' man.…
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Wild Bill: Baseball “Player”

by Tom Clavin

With Major League Baseball emerging from its winter slumber, fans tend to acknowledge…
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Wild Bill

The Centennial Fire

Centennial

by Chris Wimmer

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

war

by Tom Clavin

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

Sparticist

by Susan Ronald

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

Albert

by Tom Clavin

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

Justin

by Egil "Bud" Krogh and Matthew Krogh

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

Arizona

by Tom Clavin

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

Duke

by Alexander Larman

When I finished writing The Crown in Crisis, the book that has become…
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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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