By RICH GRANT Branson, Missouri, and the Ozark mountains are the biggest tourist attraction in the midwestern United States, and an area of outstanding natural beauty, history and art. While Branson attracts millions of visitors a year for its 120 shows, making it sort of the family-style “Las Vegas of the Midwest,” the area around Branson is filled with lakes,
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By RICH GRANT The best way to enjoy a visit to Branson, Missouri, is to get out of town. Not that there’s anything wrong with Branson. The family entertainment capital of the Midwest has a staggering 120 live shows with more seats than Broadway. Nine million people a year visit the town for big-name concerts, a half scale replica of
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By RICH GRANT No other U.S. state is as fixated with altitude as Colorado. The state song is “Rocky Mountain High.” Locals are obsessed with climbing one of Colorado’s 54 peaks that soar to 14,000 feet, or standing exactly a mile above sea level on the steps of the State Capitol in Denver, or crossing the Continental Divide,
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By RICH GRANT You can’t travel for 40 years without having some adventures. I’ve totaled a motor scooter and knocked out my two front teeth; I’ve been mugged and woken up in an ambulance without any idea where I was; I’ve been pickpocketed and chased by wicked children and I’ve even been bitten by a dog and ended up bleeding
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By RICH GRANT It sounds like a trick question: Who’s buried in Buffalo Bill’s grave? However, there are some people up in Cody, Wyoming, who would have you believe that the body resting in the beautiful gravesite on top of Lookout Mountain, high above the town of Golden, Colorado, is not really Buffalo Bill Cody. They say Buffalo Bill’s body
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By RICH GRANT (To read Part I of this article, go to: https://pulsenewsmexico.com/2017/11/29/the-surrenderers/) Part II Shortly after 10 p.m., on April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth walked up the back stairs of the Ford Theatre in Washington D.C. and entered the private box overlooking the stage. There was no guard. As an actor, Booth knew the play being performed, a
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During the “Golden Age of Piracy,” the greatest conglomeration of pirates the world has ever known assembled at Nassau and created an actual Pirate Republic that terrorized the Americas and even challenged the European powers of Britain, France and Spain
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The Columbia River Gorge is today a triumph of both nature and man
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Grant was embarrassed by his shabby and muddy uniform and his first act was to apologize to the splendidly dressed Lee
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