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    Alias Curley: A Con Man’s Story of The Little Bighorn

    Alias Curley: A Con Man’s Story of The Little Bighorn

    The Crow scout called Curley famously escaped dying with Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Others created accounts of Curley’s survival, one was an impersonator who fleeced the West.

    By Nathan Ward | February 11, 2025

    How an Interview with a Killer Pushed One Journalist Toward Fiction

    How an Interview with a Killer Pushed One Journalist Toward Fiction

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    The Dangerous Decline of a New York City Neighborhood

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    In the 1960s, East New York began down the road that would later earn it the title of the "Killing Fields."

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