Sunday, March 24, 2024

Native Americans wipe out U.S. Army command (Not Custer)

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  On December 23, 1835, one hundred and ten men under the command of Major Francis Dade left Fort Brooke (present-day Tampa), to reinforce...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Virginia Witch Trials

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      The most famous American witch trials occurred in Salem Massachusetts from 1692-1693, but Virginia had its own witches and witch trial...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Tombstone Legends

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  Tombstone owed its creation to the discovery of silver.   The mines sat in the richest productive silver district in Arizona.   The popula...
Friday, December 15, 2023

Two Guns: An Arizona Ghost Town

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  Two Guns, Arizona is a ghost town located on the Canyon Diablo gorge near Flagstaff, Arizona.  The town was originally known as Canyon Lod...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

Arizona's "Red Ghost" (A True Story)

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  Throughout the early 19th century various proposals were made to use camels imported from the Middle East to transport supplies in the des...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Hi Jolly and the U.S. Camel Corps

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  In 1855 the U.S. government approved an experimental plan to use camels imported from the Middle East for transporting supplies and equipm...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

The Legend of Hacksaw Tom

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  Between 1905 and 1915 a bandit nicknamed “Hacksaw Tom” supposedly carried out a series of robberies on wagons and stagecoaches along Arizo...
Friday, November 10, 2023

The Ghosts of Vulture City, Arizona

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  The Hanging Tree Legend has it that in 1863 Henry Wickenburg discovered gold when he went to retrieve a vulture he shot.   Wickenburg name...
Monday, October 30, 2023

Johnny Cash song: "Custer"

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  In 1964, country singer Johnny Cash wrote a song entitled “Custer” for his album Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian.   “ Custer”...
Saturday, October 21, 2023

Wyatt Earp Licenses Texas Rose

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  License issued by Wyatt Earp in March 1876 Prostitution was a growth industry in the Old West. Prostitutes were often licensed by public o...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Punting in Oxford, England

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  Punts are the name given to the flat bottomed wooden boats, which form a quintessentially Oxford (or Cambridge) experience.  Punting  is b...
Friday, September 08, 2023

Paititi: The Lost Golden City of the Inca

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  Paititi is a legendary lost city of the Inca which lies east of the Andes in the remote rainforests of Peru or Brazil.   Paititi was suppo...
Saturday, August 26, 2023

The Grave of William Shakespeare, Statford-upon-Avon

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Shakespeare’s grave is in Holy Trinity Church, in Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616, at the age of 52. Inscription ...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

The Grave of Jane Austen

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Jane Austen  Winchester Cathedral                               Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, England. In Memor...