Views the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the downfall of Richard Nixon as linked conspiracies in a chain of ominous events testifying to the struggle betw

An "old buckaroo" tells how he became a cowboy, what the work was like in the past, and how this life has changed.

1938 Newbery Honor Book Bill was just four years old when he fell from the family wagon near the Pecos River on the western frontier. Accidentally left behind b

Nathaniel Lyon (1818–1861) was the first Union general to die in the Civil War. Killed at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Missouri, he became the North’s fi

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