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Abe Lincoln, Indian Fighter
Early military service helped the future president bolster his political career.
By Dale L. Walker
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Rodeo is life—for those who are savvy enough to see it.
J.P.S. Brown
The annual Tucson Rodeo was held February 21 through March 1, 2009, for the 84th time. Spaniards held the first rodeo there in 1775. Before barbed wire cut up the country and kept cattle of different brands from running together, a roundup of cattle on open range was called a rodeo.
Whether you’re a Texas ranger or a mall cop, badges carry a 160-year history of taming the west.
Courtney Holden
This badge of sterling silver belongs to collector Gary Hoving, a retired sheriff’s chief deputy and president of the California Law Enforcement Historical Society. Crude scratches on the back read: “Charles Ivins, 1902.”
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Wyatt Earp lived nearly 81 years, spent about six of those years as a lawman, and 30 seconds of those six in a gunfight near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.
William Wright of Knox County, Ohio, ventured west in 1849, staked out land in Iowa, married, fathered five children, and began a small literary career by writing articles for Eastern magazines. In 1857 he left his family behind to try his hand as a gold prospector in California.
The Black Hawk War, among the earliest and least remembered of America’s Indian wars, took place between April 5 and August 2, 1832, in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin (then a part of Michigan Territory). This lopsided war was waged between 1,500 U.S.
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