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Valentine Mcgillicuddy, forever linked to the death of Crazy Horse
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Former slaves made history as famous Black cowboys
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The world’s biggest plow maker back when plows ruled the world
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Big snowflakes and bad karma in the winter of 1887
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Chief Dull Knife – the bloody saga of an”admirable outlaw”
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Arizona was a Confederate state long before it joined the U.S.
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It took a city kid to begin saving America’s wild places
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The uncertain story of Sacagawea, Lewis and Clark’s “pilot” west
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Oliver Loving was made famous by a partner and a book
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Was Zorro real or just a figment of Hollywood’s imagination