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After the liberation of the concentration camps, the full extent of Nazi horrors was finally exposed to the world. People demanded justice for the unspeakable atrocities committed during World War II. Millions of lives were lost in the death camps. Holocaust survivors who had witnessed and experienced the Nazis' barbarism firsthand wanted those responsible to … Read more

On July 12, 1864, Fanny Kelly was 19 years old, standing beside a wagon at Little Box Elder Creek in what is now central Wyoming. Within minutes, three of the men she loved would be shot dead on the ground beneath her feet. Her adopted daughter would be dragged onto a horse. She would begin … Read more

On April 16, 1945, American military police knocked on the doors of grand villas across Weimar, Germany. They delivered identical orders to the doctors, lawyers, professors, and politicians' wives who answered: put on your coats, you're taking a walk with General Patton. Nobody told them where they were going. Nobody told them what they would … Read more

On May 9, 1945, the war in Europe was over. Adolf Hitler was dead, and the Third Reich had collapsed. In a requisitioned German military barracks outside Munich, a formal surrender ceremony was about to take place. It would become one of the most explosive confrontations of the entire occupation. Fifty-three high-ranking Wehrmacht officers stood … Read more

In 1841, a small group of land surveyors working for the Republic of Texas moved through territory near what is today Fredericksburg, Texas. They had been sent roughly 95 miles west of Austin to survey and legally mark land grants and territorial claims. The job sounded routine. It was not. At that time, this was … Read more

In November 1831, Jim Bowie and his older brother Rezin P. Bowie set out from San Antonio with about ten other men in search of the supposed silver mine near the San Saba River. The expedition would end in one of the fiercest Indian fights recorded in Texas history. The party included David Buchanan, Robert … Read more

Tom O'Folliard is not as famous as Billy the Kid, but he may have been just as dangerous. He rode hard, fought harder, and stood at the Kid's side during some of the bloodiest moments of the Lincoln County War. With a reputation for loyalty, recklessness, and a quick trigger, O'Folliard earned his place in … Read more

Thomas O'Folliard was born in 1858 to Irish immigrant parents. When he was a boy, both of his parents died of smallpox, and he was raised by relatives in Uvalde, Texas. He began his life of crime by taking part in horse theft with Emil Fritz. Fritz later became a gunman in the Lincoln County … Read more