Elfego Baca and America’s Longest Gunfight
At age 19 self-proclaimed lawman Elfego Baca held off as many as 80 cowboys for over 30 hours, America’s longest gunfight.
Tag: American history
A Brief, Breezy History of Air Conditioning
Willis Carrier understood cool; he gave us air conditioning.
Day of Death in Dutchman’s Curve
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.
‘Jeep Disease’ and ‘Destroyer Stomach’
‘Jeep disease’ and ‘destroyer stomach’ were new terms explained to the Southern Medical Society by Army and Navy doctors in 1943.