In something out of a suspense movie, in 1970 a shooting on a nearly inaccessible ice island left a Navy research division desperately seeking answers- How do authorities deal with an alleged murder in one of the most remote places on the planet? The shocking Murder on Fletcher’s Ice Island deserves to be remembered.
There were 129 stage robberies in Arizona alone between 1875 and 1903. But one robbery in particular has left an enduring mystery. What exactly happened outside Wickenburg, Arizona on November 5, 1871?
The unsung heroes of the naval war in the Western theater weren’t the city class casemate ironclads, but a much larger and more active fleet of more than seventy, much smaller, lightly armored vessels. The “Tinclads” of the US Civil War deserve to be remembered.