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American cowboys from the 1800s looked very different from the polished gunslingers later created by Hollywood. During the late 1800s, cowboys were primarily working men hired to move huge herds of cattle across open country to railroad depots and markets.…

Through the 1930s, a combination of drought and poor farming practices turned huge stretches of the American Great Plains into dry, wind-blown wasteland. Hundreds of thousands of families, unable to farm land that had literally blown away, packed what they…

A small number of photographs exist showing the Titanic in the final days and hours before it struck the iceberg that sank it — ordinary snapshots that became historically priceless by accident. One passenger, disembarking at an earlier port stop…