William D. Street’s great-grandson finally published this memoir of Street’s years as an early settler in northwestern Kansas
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Book Review: No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell / The Stafford-Townsend Feud
James C. Kearney chronicles the bitter 30-year Stafford-Townsend feud of southeast Texas.
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Author David Grann
David Grann’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” traces a string of Osage killings in Oklahoma
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Dan Namingha
Dan Namingha puts a contemporary spin on works that pay tribute to his Hopi-Tewa heritage
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Daily Quiz for May 25, 2017
As of 2015, twelve original copies of this historical document survive.
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Washington Irving: A Tour on the Prairies
Leaving ‘Sleepy Hollow’ for Indian country, Washington Irving met real Indians, roasted bread on a stick, hunted buffalo and wrote a frontier saga
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Letter From Wild West – August 2017
Peter Cozzens seeks restore balance to the American Indian narrative with his 2016 book “The Earth Is Weeping”
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Daily Quiz for May 24, 2017
Reportedly, prolific voice actor, Mel Blanc, legally changed his name from Blank because of this.
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From The Crossroads: Fog of War or Fiction?
Ambrose Ransom Wright did not complete his after-action report for the Battle of Gettysburg […]
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Interview: Matthew Hulbert / Guerrilla Warfare
Matthew Hulbert started with Jesse James and ended up exploring how the Civil War […]