No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own. – H.G. Wells, War of the Worlds
April, 17th, 1897, one year before HG Wells publishes War of the Worlds, a story of a “Martian” craft crashing in Aurora, Texas was published in the Dallas Morning News.
“A Windmill Demolishes It,” by S. E. Haydon, The Dallas Morning News, April 19, 1897, p. 5 Continue reading “Cowboys vs. Martians”
“I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is humiliating as hell. I thinly we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it!” 
