Quanah Parker was the eldest of three children his white mother had with her Comanche husband Peta Nocona. She was forced to leave her two sons behind when she was recaptured by the Texas Rangers, but one look at this photograph reveals the strong love that her eldest son had for his mother.
– Courtesy Cowan's Auctions –
No one knows if Nikola Tesla ever wirelessly transmitted the lightning power from his Colorado Springs laboratory to Pikes Peak.
– True West Archives –
Tutored by the notorious Lola Montez, young Lotta Crabtree began her career at age eight, in 1855, dancing for gold miners in Grass Valley, California. She added a banjo and found greater success when she moved to San Francisco and on to New York City’s Broadway. The darling of the mining camps flaunted convention—here seen smoking a cigar!
– Courtesy Library of Congress –
One of the most famous photos of the Old West shows John Heath hanging from a telegraph pole. After overpowering Sheriff Jerome Ward, the Bisbee mob wanted to hang Heath from the balustrade of the jail, but he stopped them. They then took their prisoner to the telegraph pole at the corner of First and Toughnut Streets. Heath’s last words were, “I have faced death too many times to be disturbed when it actually comes. . .don’t mutilate my body or shoot me full of holes!”
– True West Archives –
One of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken was the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway through the Rockies in the 1880s. When construction was started in 1881, the U.S. transcontinental link had been operating for more than a decade (since 1869). Canada’s government required the railway to run close to the U.S. border, putting the route through some of the most vertical terrain on the continent.
– Courtesy Stephen Low –
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