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David Lauterborn

David Lauterborn is the former editor of the award-winning magazines Military History and Wild West. He and wife Jill hail from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, the original “gateway to the West” for Corps of Discovery co-captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who mapped much of our nascent nation for the Army.

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