While escorting two Helotes Gang members to jail by rail, the U.S. marshal for […]
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Wright Was Might Among Oregon Indians
Benjamin Wright, who built a reputation as a fearsome Indian fighter, worked to broker […]
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New Mexico’s Reviled Heroic Padre
Padre Antonio José Martínez dared to speak out against Anglos and the French bishop, […]
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To Lure Investors to Goldfield, Nevada, ‘Tex’ Rickard Promoted a Prizefight
The 1906 bout pitted the ‘Old Master’ against the ‘Durable Dane’ A massive crowd […]
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The National Park Service Has Rebuilt Ned Wynkoop’s Indian Agency Home at Fort Larned
Guests at the original building included Tall Bull and Black Kettle. Plans survived for […]
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The First White Woman to Enter the Black Hills, Annie Tallent Wrote Her Memoirs of That Time
Arriving in the Dakotas in 1874, she was among a group of ‘trespassers’ While […]
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One-armed Deputy U.S. Marshal Ed Johnson Once Chased After the Marlow Brothers
His right arm lost in a gunfight, he became a deadly left-handed shot. Lawman […]
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Death in Deer Lodge
Prisoner George Rock, with a hood over his head, hangs by the neck in […]
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Semmes and Alabama: A Peerless Duo
It was September 5, 1862, and Captain Abraham Osborn Jr. was having an especially […]
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American History Book Review: Reporting the Revolutionary War
Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News By Todd Andrlik, […]