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Mysteries at the Museum

Pony Express, Churchill's Misadventure and First Ambulance Corps

Don examines a saddle cover that traversed the Wild West, a newspaper article that saved a politician and a Civil War-era horse cart that changed the face of battlefield medicine.

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