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Mountain man Kit Carson takes a trip down the aisle
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“Pawnee Bill” Lillie – era of the frontier showmen at an end
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Beaten up for a sissy name, Zane Grey got rich inventing heroes
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Did King Woolsey poison the pinole or not?
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The U.S. Army, California’s Modoc and the “fog of war”
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What happened to all those Ingalls after “Little House?”
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Colt invented the gun but the Texas Rangers made it famous
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Freeman homestead founded by luck or a bit of skulduggery
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Louisa Canby – A Christmas angel or war time traitor?
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Lewis and Clark, Fort Clatsop and the case of the stolen canoe