It was November 2014, and winter was closing in at Great Basin National Park. Archeologist Eva Jensen was participating in a field survey of cultural resources in the park, and stumbled upon an artifact that would soon make international headlines. Her team was finishing up lunch, when she decided to …
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The Winchester, Part 1
The Winchester Rifle Model 1873 was “The gun that won the West.” At least, that’s what I read in one of the opening frames of the movie, Winchester 73, a classic black and white Western from 1950 staring Jimmy Stewart. In the film, a special “One of One Thousand” version …
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You would think that news of an Arizona stage coach robbery in the waning months of the 19th century would quickly fall out of the frontier news cycle. Yet this particular heist propelled the story of a young woman in her twenties onto the pages of newspapers and magazines across …
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