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John Wayne and Clint Eastwood were standing 10 feet apart on a sound stage that had gone dead silent. Wayne was 64 years…
The Rat Pack is having dinner. John Ford, John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Peter Lofford, the most powerful men in Hollywood. A waiter, a…
John Wayne was halfway through the scene when he saw the gun. Not pointed at him, not yet. Just resting on a wooden…
The first strike of the hammer against the chisel was a clean, sharp sound that the valley swallowed whole. Elellon adjusted his grip,…
His Glass Tower in the Frozen Prairie Made No Sense — Until It Pumped Hot Air Into His Cabin All Day
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Everything you’ve been told about surviving the brutal American frontier is a lie. We’re taught that the pioneers who conquered the wilderness were…
The observatory had been abandoned for 3 years when Evelyn Grant first saw it in October 1897, built in 1891 by a mining…
The temperature had already dropped to 12° below zero when Martha Lingren heard the first skeptic’s warning carry across her farmyard that November…
She built a tent tunnel to her barn, and her neighbor said she’d burn both buildings down before Christmas. “7 ft of oiled…