From the OSS to the CIA, how Wild Bill Donovan shaped the American intelligence community.
https://www.historynet.com/celebrating-the-legacy-of-the-office-of-strategic-services-82-years-on/
During the 1835–42 Second Seminole War and as Army scouts out West, these warriors from the South proved formidable.
https://www.historynet.com/seminole-warrior-vs-us-soldier-book-review-2/
In 2019 Will Grant embarked on a 142-day, 2,000-mile horseback journey from the Pony Express stables in St. Joseph, Mo., to trail’s end in Sacramento, Calif.
William Frederick Cody (1846-1917) led a signal life, from his youthful exploits with the Pony Express and in service as a U.S. Army scout to his globetrotting days as a showman and international...
If you needed some motivation during the war years, there was probably a poster for that.
Texan Sam Privett, the colorfully nicknamed proprietor of Booger Red’s Wild West, backed up his boast he could ride anything on four legs.
Steve Friesen, the former director of the Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave in Colorado, assesses what has been written and filmed.
When covert operatives went into Italy to retrieve prisoners of war, little went according to plan.
Sue Robinson rose from an itinerant life as a touring child performer to become an acclaimed dramatic actress.
In 1901, Cody had his Sioux performers don Chinese garb and portray the rebels.
The peaceful French countryside around La Fiere Bridge erupted into a desperate firefight on June 6, 1944.
Poet and playwright Oscar Wilde was no slouch at drawing crowds, critics and cash during his seven-week ramble of the American West in 1882.
The Wrights won.
Rifles and revolvers made by Uberti, Pietta, Pedersoli and other Italian firms remain popular.
One minute this 460-foot-long munition ship was there, then it wasn't.
While the Rev. Dr. Taylor Filmore Ealy was never destined to be a household name, his journal records a life of frontier challenges, from Oklahoma Territory to embattled Lincoln, New Mexico Terri...
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To artist Edwin Forbes, William Jackson of the 12th New York was an everyman Union soldier, a “solemn lad… toughened by campaigning.” There was much more to Jackson’s story.
Among the brothers' veteran ranch hands were such stars as Will Rogers, Tom Mix and Bill Pickett.
Did Curtiss-Wright deliberately sell defective engines to the U.S. Army during WWII?
Kentucky’s John Crittenden, Virginia’s John Robertson found common ground too late as the prospects for peace evaded in 1860-61.
https://www.historynet.com/senator-crittenden-kentucky-letter/