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This Patient Rider Spent Months Retracing the Pony Express on Horseback

Apr 11, 2024 | historynet.com | Austin Stahl |Will Grant

When the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Co. launched the Pony Express on April 3, 1860, fanfare for the new express mail service made newspaper headlines from New York to San Francisco. The cheers came loudest from California where proponents hailed its commencement as a vital step forward in linking the Far West with the rest of the country. The advertised delivery time between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento, Calif. was 10 days, accomplished by a fast-horse relay.
During the War Years, Posters From the American Homefront Told You What to Do - And What Not to Do

Apr 9, 2024 | historynet.com | Tom Huntington

“The First World War saw the first widespread use of propaganda to stir patriotic fervour,” note Gill Saunders and Margaret Timmers in The Poster: A Visual History. “The need to raise vast sums of money from the public purse to fund the war spawned numerous posters advertising war bonds and loans; countries on both sides of the conflict employed some of their best poster artists for this purpose.” If it had worked in one world war, why not try it in another?
The One and Only 'Booger' Was Among History's Best Rodeo Performers

Apr 5, 2024 | historynet.com | Austin Stahl |Richard Selcer

The horse was once as essential to Western life as the six-gun, and breaking horses was once a necessary skill, even a business for a few tough, enterprising souls. Eventually it became a competitive rodeo event in which working cowboys pitted their skills against wild horses—and each other.
An SAS Rescue Mission Mission Gone Wrong

Apr 2, 2024 | historynet.com | Brian Walker |Gavin Mortimer

Norman Crockatt is not a well-known name, but the British intelligence officer was responsible for one of the most controversial decisions of World War II. When the War Office in London created Military Intelligence Section 9 (MI9) on December 23, 1939, it chose the 45-year-old Crockatt to head the new organization. The former head of the London Stock Exchange, he was seen as “the right sort of chap” for the post despite his scant experience in military intelligence.
Could These American Paratroopers Stop the Germans from Reaching Utah Beach on D-Day?

Mar 26, 2024 | historynet.com | Brian Walker |James M. Fenelon

O n the evening of June 5, 1944, Louis Leroux, his wife, and their six children scrambled atop an embankment near their farm to investigate the sounds of distant explosions. Three miles south, Allied fighter-bombers were attacking bridges over the Douve River on France’s Cotentin Peninsula. In the fading twilight the family watched silhouetted warplanes peel away from the glowing tracers of German anti-aircraft fire that stabbed skyward.
Oscar Wilde Bothered and Bewildered Westerners While Touring to Promote Gilbert and Sullivan

Mar 22, 2024 | historynet.com | Austin Stahl |Preston Lewis

Of all the city slickers ever to venture into the 19th century American West, Oscar Wilde towered above the rest, preening like a peacock with his ostentatious wardrobe, his philosophy of art and his knack for spilling printer’s ink across the pages of Western newspapers. In the parlance of the cowboy, Wilde exemplified the “swivel dude,” a gaudy fellow worthy of a second look or a tip of the hat.
This Quiet Missionary Survived the Lincoln County War to Live Among the Zunis

Mar 18, 2024 | historynet.com | Austin Stahl |Gregory Lalire

The Rev. Dr. Taylor Filmore Ealy faced many struggles, most not of his own making, while a Presbyterian medical missionary between 1874 and 1881—first at Fort Arbuckle, on the Chickasaw Reservation in Oklahoma Territory; then in volatile Lincoln, New Mexico Territory; and finally at Zuni Pueblo, also in New Mexico Territory. Some of that time he kept a journal.
The Scandal that Led to Harry S. Truman Becoming President and Marilyn Monroe Getting Married

Mar 13, 2024 | historynet.com | Brian Walker |Stephan Wilkinson

The Curtiss-Wright Corporation came into being in 1929 through the merger of companies started by pioneering aviators Glenn Curtiss and the Wright brothers. Within the new company, the Curtiss-Wright airplane division made airplanes while the Wright Aeronautical Corporation focused on engines. By the time of World War II, Curtiss-Wright held more defense contracts than any organization other than vastly larger General Motors and had become something of a bully.
You Might Be Surprised to Learn What This Resort Hotel Did During World War II

Mar 12, 2024 | historynet.com | Barbara Noe Kennedy

Rounding the bend past the guard gate, I catch my breath when I spy the Greenbrier resort’s main building. The Georgian-style structure, wedding-cake white and six stories high, looms above flower-speckled grounds that cover 7,000 acres and include cottages, five golf courses, tennis courts, and hiking and bridle trails.
This Helicopter Test Pilot Pushed the Limits for Rotorcraft - Without Killing Himself

Mar 7, 2024 | historynet.com | Brian Walker |Steve Wartenberg

Jean Boulet’s first helicopter flight was almost his last. It was September 21, 1947, and the 26-year-old Boulet was at the Camden, New Jersey, headquarters of Helicopter Air Transport, the world’s first commercial helicopter operator. He had earned an engineering degree from the École Polytechnique in Paris and had been a member of the French air force during World War II. After the liberation of France, the air force sent Boulet to the United States for fighter pilot training.