A REAL AMERICAN GUNFIGHTER AND HIS GUNS When those who grew up in my era hear the words “gunfight” or “gunfighter,” we immediately get a vision of something that never existed. Spending many of my Saturdays in the late 1940s at the West Theater to watch western movies with the likes of Roy Rogers,…
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Lessons from the Battle of Adobe Walls
Lessons from the Battle of Adobe Walls An amazing but rarely discussed piece of Texas History.
Know Your Texas History: 188 Years Ago Today the Siege of the Alamo Began and Lasted for 13 Days
Remembering the Alamo February 23, 1836 — Native Americans had lived in Texas for thousands of years, undisturbed until Spanish explorers arrived in 1519 and took control. Mexico’s war of independence pushed out the Spanish in 1821 and Mexican Texas was born. To boost settlement, Mexican authorities encouraged immigration from the United States, the campaign becoming so successful that by 1834,…
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Know Your Real Civil War History: Lincoln’s Tariff War ~ March 2, 1861
Lincoln’s Tariff War ~ March 2, 1861 When Charles Adams published his book For Good and Evil, a world history of taxation, the most controversial chapter by far was the one on whether or not tariffs caused the American War between the States. That chapter generated so much discussion and debate that Adams’s publisher urged…
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Last of the Cold War Gunfighters: Vought F-8 Crusader
Vought F-8 Crusader: Last of the Gunfighters The Vought F-8 Crusader was a single-engine, supersonic, carrier-based, high-performance jet fighter that first flew in 1955, a mere decade after the end of World War II. The Crusader was the first American fighter to break 1,000 miles per hour. The F-8 earned its testosterone-besotted moniker because…