“My mine is where the devil himself can't find it. It's in Death Valley in the mountains where no man can ever go — no man but Wallie Scott …I'm worth $1 million to $20 million and it's all there in the mine.”
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At the bottom of Lahontan Reservoir northeast of Carson City in the Nevada desert lie the ruins of the Williams stagecoach station where on May 6, 1860, a terrible thing happened that started a war between whites and three Indian tribes from Nevada and Idaho.
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Sept. 13, 1834: “We left the Madison Fork with Mr. Bridger’s Camp and ascended a small branch in a West direction through the mountains about 20 miles and encamped on the divide,” mountain man Osborne Russell wrote in his journal.
It would seem improbable that two landscape paintings would affect history, but Thomas Moran’s “Chasm of the Colorado” and “The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone” did just that. And today, another painting titled “The Three Tetons” hangs in the Oval Office.
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Newspapers said Ella Watson was an outlaw and called her “Cattle Kate,” but she was no outlaw — just a small-time cattle rancher. They hanged her anyway.
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John Charles Frémont was one of America’s greatest explorers and map makers of the early West. They called him “The Pathfinder.” But incredibly he was charged with treason and could have been legally shot by one of his own Army officers. In a letter to President James Polk in his …
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Less than 130 miles north of Las Vegas is a small, quiet town called Pioche, surrounded by hills and desert. It’s called a ghost town, even though its population is 1,000, with most of them working for the county government because that’s the county seat.
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Hungry diners at Mackenzie River Pizza in Coeur d’Alene and its other locations in six states may not know much about the Mackenzie River in British Columbia and the man it was named after, but his story is a remarkable adventure in the history of North America.
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Two-thirds of the continental U.S. lies west of the Mississippi River, and to the east is the one-third where most Americans in the 1800s were born, grew up, worked, raised a family and died. It was the world they understood, felt secure in and where they could enjoy the creature …
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Polly Bemis was one of the lucky ones. Only 4-foot-5 tall, she lived in Warren, Idaho, during a time when not everyone was nice to the Chinese. Born in China and sold into slavery by her parents, she ended up in Idaho and became a legend. Many of her countrymen …
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His Serene Highness Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied could have stayed home in Prussia in his family palace, enjoying the luxury of ancient German royalty — his family going back at about 1100 A.D. — but he didn’t.
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His Wallowa band of Nez Perce called him Waaya-Tonah-Toesits-Kahn — meaning “Earth Left by the Setting Sun.” He was a nephew of Chief Joseph, rode with him during the Nez Perce War in the 1870s, and became famous well into the 20th century for his way with horses.
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Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party was founded by abolitionists and he earned the accolade of being the Great Emancipator. It’s true that Lincoln’s primary goal in the Civil War was to preserve the Union, with ending slavery second. But he ended up doing both, and when the war was over, freed …
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In the early 1800s, 30 to 50 million buffalo — or bison — roamed the plains of America. For long before the white man, they were a prime source of food and clothing for Indians in those regions. By the latter part of the century there were only about 2,000 …
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