If you were going to steal a cannon, how would you do it? Cannons, after all, are not generally associated with larceny. For starters, they’re hard to fence or pawn. But the real question when it ...

The cannon that fired on the Free State Hotel during the sacking of Lawrence has lived a long, full life during the Civil War era in Kansas and Missouri. Now, however, it sits destroyed — a giant hole ...

It’s Nevada’s longest historical mystery. Is the cannon that explorer John C. Fremont dumped in the Sierra Nevada in 1844 still lost in the West Walker River, or is it sitting on an exhibit floor at ...

The Nevada and UNLV football teams play annually for one of the coolest trophies in college sports, the Fremont Cannon. Here's a look at the cannon, which will be played for this week when the Wolf ...

UNLV lost the first Battle for Nevada to UNR in 1969, but the first coat of paint on the prized Fremont Cannon was red. That’s because the cannon — awarded to the winner of the annual rivalry game, ...

Cannon have been a part of St. Augustine's history since its earliest days. Not quite a year after St. Augustine was founded, 22 bronze cannon had been mounted on the wooden fort built on Anastasia ...

Wolf Pack football coach Jay Norvell has played or coached for a bronze pig (Iowa vs. Minnesota's Floyd of Rosedale), a 6-foot long axe (Wisconsin vs. Minnesota's Paul Bunyan's Axe), a 295-pound brass ...

Underneath the many coats of paint that cover the Tufts Cannon lies a controversial political history that started one of Tufts' most well-known traditions. The rules of painting the Civil War ...

CANNON FALLS, Minn. (WCCO)-- There's a place in Goodhue County where you can find military history dating back a century and a half. In this week's Finding Minnesota, John Lauritsen shows us how a ...