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Sports & Outdoors

February 7, 2012

Wrestling for Wealth: A Daredevil Cowboy Triumphs Over An Enormous Grizzly

That old Grizz was just asking for a fight when he moseyed on in and ordered-up one of them there mojitos. “The precursor to the western film genre was based on an 1896 story by Scott Marble. The film's title…

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Photography

February 7, 2012

Bucking Bronco :: O’Donnell on Whirlwind :: Cheyenne Frontier Days (1911)

Earliest photo that I could find of a bucking bronco at the Library of Congress.

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Sports & Outdoors

January 8, 2012

Eadweard Muybridge :: Horse In Motion :: Infographic From 1878

Not everyday that you come across an infographic from 1878. (more…)

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Sports & Outdoors

October 21, 2011

Sky-Cycle (1892) :: Library Of Congress

Hindenburg...schmendenburg...I have a Sky-Cycle for pete's sake (more…)

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Sports & Outdoors

October 10, 2011

Flying Machine Technical Illustration :: Tissandier Collection

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Sports & Outdoors

October 10, 2011

Baseball Poster No. 281 :: 1895

When the manliest of men maintained mannish mustaches. Print showing a batter standing at home plate with catcher and umpire awaiting the pitch; view is from the pitcher's mound, with grandstand visible in the background. – Library Of Congress +…

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Sports & Outdoors

September 23, 2011