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Elfego Baca and America’s Longest Gunfight

Elfego Baca and America’s Longest Gunfight

Gerald D. Swick September 8, 2018 Once, in America history blogLeave a comment

At age 19 self-proclaimed lawman Elfego Baca held off as many as 80 cowboys for over 30 hours, America’s longest gunfight.

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A Brief, Breezy History of Air Conditioning

A Brief, Breezy History of Air Conditioning

Gerald D. Swick August 21, 2018 Once, in America history blogLeave a comment

Willis Carrier understood cool; he gave us air conditioning.

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Day of Death in Dutchman’s Curve

Gerald D. Swick July 25, 2018 Once, in America history blogLeave a comment

Two locomotives collided head-on west of Nashville in 1918, an accident believed to have killed more people than any other U.S. train wreck.

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‘Jeep Disease’ and ‘Destroyer Stomach’

Gerald D. Swick July 20, 2018 Once, in America history blogLeave a comment

‘Jeep disease’ and ‘destroyer stomach’ were new terms explained to the Southern Medical Society by Army and Navy doctors in 1943.

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