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Wild West - April 2012 - Letters from Readers

David Lauterborn — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:18:14 +0000

In the February issue of Wild West, readers chime in on the Fort Worth Five photograph, Finn Burnett and the very much alive town of Columbia, Calif.

Letters From Readers - April 2012 American History

ckreiser — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:02:10 +0000

Founding Fakes?
Woody Holton's piece on George Washington's moral journey (February 2012) is too short to prove his thesis. It provided insight into "Father" George's early machinations, but little is presented to show that he became a moral person. What …

Military History - March 2012 - Letters from Readers

David Lauterborn — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:45:59 +0000

Readers letters in the March 2012 issue of Military History sound off about the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, race relations in the U.S. military and military decorations..

Wild West - February 2012 - Letters from Readers

David Lauterborn — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:31:02 +0000

In the February issue of Wild West, readers bend our ears about Old West writer Eugene Field, big-screen look-alikes, Smith & Wesson No. 3s, Arizona gun laws, and a long-forgotten gunfight in Bodie, Calif.

Letters from Readers

dnewbold — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:03:23 +0000

No Enemy Flamethrowers?
In the article "Zippos in Vietnam" (June) it was stated that the enemy didn't have flamethrowers. First, I remember one instance during my time in Lam Dong Province where the command bunker of a Regional Force company …

Military History - January 2012 - Letters from Readers

David Lauterborn — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:34:17 +0000

Readers letters in the January 2012 issue of Military History sound off about history's great military escapes, Pancho Villa's war movie, General Douglas MacArthur, the Irish Brigade, counterinsurgencies and Richard the Lionheart.

Wild West - December 2011 - Letters from Readers

David Lauterborn — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:01:08 +0000

In the December issue of Wild West, readers bend our ears about Texas badmen, Pat Garrett, frontier surveyors and personal recollections of the West.

Letters From Readers - December 2011 American History

ckreiser — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:16:03 +0000

Messin' With Texas

I always enjoy reading articles about my native state of Texas, but I was deeply disappointed by Gregory Curtis' contention in "Lone Star Nation" (October 2011) that "the geography of the state is relatively uniform." Mr. Curtis …

Letters from Readers - October 2011 Vietnam magazine

Scokeley — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:03:53 +0000

Faas Found to Be Mystery Man
Your August issue just arrived, and I was prompted to respond after seeing the picture of Horst Faas and then reading "Images of Hell at Dong Xoai."

The photo of Faas helped me to …

Military History - November 2011 - Letters from Readers

David Lauterborn — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:19:33 +0000

Readers letters in the November 2011 issue of Military History sound off about George Marshall, the 35th Infantry Division in World War II, the Welsh/English longbow and helicopter assaults in military history.