On January 10, 1981, Robert E. Callahan, author, historian, collector and showman, died at the age of 88, leaving behind Callahan’s Old West Trading Post on Sierra Highway. Born in Virginia in 1892, Callahan developed a lifelong fascination with the American West and Native American history. He claimed a mathematically dubious 1/6th Iroquois ancestry, spoke at least 14 Indigenous languages ...

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