Author and former National Park historian Jerome Greene takes the most even-handed look yet at the 1890 battle and subsequent slaughter on South Dakota’s Wounded Knee Creek.
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Book Review: South Pass, by Will Bagley
Overland trail writer Will Bagley relates the history of South Pass, the most significant portal through the Rocky Mountains to the American far West.
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Book Review: Tom Horn in Life and Legend, by Larry D. Ball
Larry Ball digs deep to separate the real man from the myth in this biography of cowhand, prospector, packer, scout, Pinkerton agent and range detective Tom Horn.
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Book Review: Cochise, by Edwin R. Sweeney
In his latest offering Cochise scholar Edwin Sweeney presents a wealth of firsthand accounts of the Apache chief.
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Book Review: Citizen Explorer, by Jared Orsi
Jared Orsi’s biography of Zebulon Pike seeks to rejuvenate the reputation of the once-celebrated explorer.
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Book Review: Kit Carson and the First Battle of Adobe Walls
Both on paper and in person Alvin Lynn tracked Kit Carson’s participation in the 1864 First Battle of the Adobe Walls.
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Book Review: The Fights on the Little Horn / Unveiling the Mysteries of Custer’s Last Stand
In Fights on the Little Horn, Gordon Harper condenses decades of research into a thorough and sometimes contentious account of Custer’s Last Stand and related clashes in that 1876 campaign.
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Book Review: Apache Warrior, 1860–86
Robert Watt’s new Osprey title Apache Warrior focuses on the revered and feared Chiricahuas of the American Southwest.
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Video Reviews: Gunslingers, by AHC, and America’s Wild West, by PBS
Gunslingers and America’s Wild West take very different, and uniquely satisfying, approaches to relate the history of the West’s most celebrated figures.
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Daily Quiz for October 3, 2014
On January 15, 1975, Portugal granted independence to this country.