Stories
Field notes, editorials, and long-form pieces from the vault - the wrecks, the recoveries, and the artifacts that survived.
A Coat That Walked the Frontier.
Perry Engle - Maryland to Kansas, four feet of buffalo hide, ten pounds of armor against the cold.
A 100-days man in the 3rd Maryland, a Kansas homestead, and a buffalo and beaver robe coat that outlived him by a century.
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The SS Japan
An iron steamer of the Lincoln era. A wreck the ocean kept.
Pacific Mail's flagship, the Chinese laborers she carried, and the 1874-CC Trade Dollars recovered from her.
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One Fare. 24,000 Miles.
The Oakland, Brooklyn & Fruitvale R.R. token - and the family that earned it.
An 1871 copper transit token, a 1846 voyage around Cape Horn, and the 3rd great-grandfather who connects them.
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Not a Coin. But Every Bit as Much History.
A French naval boarding cutlass, Chatellerault, July 1841 - carrying the V-shaped nicks of blade-on-blade combat.
Le Sabre d'Abordage M1833 - the most copied naval boarding weapon of the 19th century. The U.S. Navy modeled their Civil War cutlass on it.
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