Elfego Baca and America’s Longest Gunfight Gerald D. Swick September 8, 2018 Once, in America history blog itemprop="discussionURL"Leave 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. TweetPinShare6Reddit6 Shares
A Brief, Breezy History of Air Conditioning Gerald D. Swick August 21, 2018 Once, in America history blog itemprop="discussionURL"Leave a comment Willis Carrier understood cool; he gave us air conditioning. TweetPinShareReddit0 Shares
Day of Death in Dutchman’s Curve Gerald D. Swick July 25, 2018 Once, in America history blog itemprop="discussionURL"Leave 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. TweetPinShareReddit0 Shares
‘Jeep Disease’ and ‘Destroyer Stomach’ Gerald D. Swick July 20, 2018 Once, in America history blog itemprop="discussionURL"Leave a comment ‘Jeep disease’ and ‘destroyer stomach’ were new terms explained to the Southern Medical Society by Army and Navy doctors in 1943. TweetPinShareReddit0 Shares