Seaman Second Class Jack Edward Rowe’s 1944 voyage to France unfolds with disarming candor in a diary he left behind.
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Need a GIF to Express How You’re Feeling Today? The National Archives Has Got You Covered
Since launching in 2016, the National Archives GIPHY channel has delivered “major historic events, […]
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Camp Shanks: Last Stop, U.S.A.
As the war effort ramped up to full speed, U.S. Army planners turned 2,000 acres of quiet New York farmland into the busiest military embarkation camp in the world.
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Charles E. Rankin: Bound to the Western Story
The retired University of Oklahoma Press chief editor isn’t about to ride off into the sunset
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Book Review: The Cowboy President
It was in the Dakota Territory, writes Michael Blake, that Roosevelt learned to carry a big stick as well as the importance of conservation
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Comanche Chief Quanah Parker: A Man of Two Worlds
Half-white but raised a Comanche, Quanah Parker led the “Lords of the Plains” in times of war and peace and knew enough about the white man’s world to become a successful cattleman.
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Monsters of the Plains
Buffalo were once considered as dangerous as grizzly bears— viewed with awe and hunted […]
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Englishman Montague Stevens Was a Legendary One-Armed Grizzly Hunter
The transplant to New Mexico later became a conservationist. Already friends with Major General […]
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Book Review: Cattle Kingdom
Christopher Knowlton casts his eye for business on the open range era of the frontier West
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When Titans Tangled
As America was feeling an urge for empire, Mark Twain and Theodore Roosevelt rumbled.