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...and so was the rallying cry that began the Spanish-American War, when, on February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in Havana horbor, killing 274 men.Perhaps the most famous icon from that bloody war was the American assault on Cuba's San Juan Hill in the Santiago campaign. It was not one of history's greatest battles, but it was the battle that won the campaign... the campaign that won the war... the war that dismantled the empire that had...

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In 1925, when Rollie Burns turned sixty-eight, like many old-timers he decided it was time to write down his reminiscences of a long, full life on the West Texas plains. Born in 1857 in Missouri, he had been brought to Texas by his parents about the beginning of the Civil War, and he grew up near Denison, then the only shipping point on the cattle trail north and a fascinating place for boys who were to become cowboys. One month short of his s...