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Introducing: Alonzo Ickis

Alonzo Ferdinand Ickis was the first person I wrote about in The Three-Cornered War. I found his wartime diary in the Western History Collection at the Denver Public Library during my initial research trip for this project, in 2010. It is a small, leather-bound volume, and Ickis wrote over his initial penciled . . .

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