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There’s more material about General Robert E. Lee than a person could read in a lifetime. However, there was a Confederate captain named Robert J. “Bob” Lee who kept his personal war going for nearly half a decade after the Civil War ended who is barely known outside Texas. When the war broke out, Lee…
For most of us, President’s Day (it’s Monday, by the way) has become just a day when we don’t get mail and the stock market is closed. This is pretty sad considering we have holidays to honor candy and ghosts. Maybe a few interesting facts about some of our leaders would help…
On a cold morning in 1871 in Granbury, Texas, a saloon owner went to check on one of his employees who had been extremely sick. The man went by the name John St. Helen. St. Helen had shown up in town four years earlier and kept a low profile. He’d left the town of Glen…
Sometimes we might find ourselves following politics too closely and wonder how things got so bad. They didn’t just get bad — they always have been. I ran across some sources lately for some odd and inflammatory mudslinging from past American politicians. And yes, of course, the Long family of Louisiana is involved: •In the…