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A faro game in a Tombstone, Arizona Territory saloon.. The frontier gambler is one of the most recognizable stock characters of the 19th century American frontier.Historically, gamblers were of both sexes, came from a variety of professions, social classes, and geographical backgrounds, were of many different nationalities, and were part of a well-respected profession.
In 1772, he moved to Marion County, (West) Virginia. [2] David also built and lived in the original Prickett's Fort State Park helping protect the bastion from Indians and British soldiers alongside Jacob Prickett. During his time in Fairmont, West Virginia he founded and established the community of Pettyjohn on the West side of Fairmont. The ...
Clarke spent some time traveling with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. The show played to the American fascination with the West and frontier life, and was a circus-like attraction featuring recreations of life in the West, shooting contests, displays of horsemanship, and usually closing with a staged Amerindian attack on a settler cabin.
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A fictitious baseball player who learned yoga in Tibet and could pitch a fastball at 168 miles per hour, among other things. Eddie Gaedel: A 65-pound (29 kg) baseball player, 3 ft 7 in (1.09 m) tall. Career on‑base percentage: 1.000. Sajjad Ganjzadeh: Getting your head kicked isn't always bad – it won this Iranian an Olympic gold medal.
Possibly born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1763, or on the South Branch of the Potomac River where his parents had moved before 1770, Lewis was the son of Mary Bonnet (1735–1805; daughter of Jean Jacques Bonnet, Flemish Huguenot) and John Wetzel (1733–1786; indentured servant emigrant from Germany's Palatine region or Friedrichstal, Baden, Germany).
A place in California. Not a very appropriate name Fort Gay, West Virginia: Notable for an incident in which an Xbox Live player's account was suspended because he lived here. Fort Misery: The name of a ghost town and the oldest log cabin in Arizona, along with a trading post in Colorado.
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