Stephen Hyslop’s overview of the Old West relates a very American history of the region and its diverse peoples
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Book Review: Rough Riders / Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill
Mark Lee Gardner’s book addresses the Rough Rider myths and relates what the troopers actually did.
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Book Review: Bad Company and Burnt Powder
Bob Alexander presents a dozen detailed profiles of lesser-known Southwestern frontier figures
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Book Review: Soldiers in the Army of Freedom
Ian Spurgeon provides a history of the first black regiment to fight in the Union Army—the 1st Kansas Volunteer Infantry (Colored)
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Letter From Wild West: August 2016
Carson’s contempt for the Jicarillas was ingrained by the time he became Indian agent
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He Who Has No Ears
Bear Ribs, whom whites appointed first chief of all the Sioux, did not listen to his own people’s warnings
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Remington and Catlin share wall space with Rockwell and Warhol at the Bentonville, Ark., museum
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Daily Quiz for May 27, 2016
This mobile electronic device was originally marketed in the US as the “Soundabout”
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Author Philip Burnham
Philip Burnham’s biography of Dewey Beard is the remarkable saga of a Lakota who killed a trooper at the Little Bighorn and was wounded at Wounded Knee
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The Defense of Van
In the spring of 1915, while the world watched events in the Dardanelles, one small Armenian community in a distant corner of the Ottoman Empire waged a desperate battle of national survival.