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Armed With Just a Badge, Los Angeles' First Policewoman Protected the City's Most Vulnerable in the Early 20th CenturyAlice Stebbins Wells was a reserved and kindly woman, small and slight in stature. Dressed in everyday street attire, she stepped onto the Los Angeles trolley one day in late 1910. Wells didn’t wear a ...
Scottish emigrant and abolitionist Allan Pinkerton founded America's first detective agency and successfully brought down some of the country's most ruthless criminals. But in 1874 he tried to ...
Scottish emigrant and abolitionist Allan Pinkerton founded America's first detective agency and successfully brought down some of the country's most ruthless criminals. But in 1874 he tried to ...
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