Prolific Western writer Chris Enss has delved into the lives of ordinary Westerners, though the extraordinary Custers have also drawn her interest.
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Book Review: Sam Sixkiller / Cherokee Frontier Lawman
Authors Howard Kazanjian and Chris Enss present an overdue biography of Cherokee lawman Sam Sixkiller.
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Book Review: Ho! For the Black Hills, edited by Paul L. Hedren
Ho! For the Black Hills presents a trove of letters written by Jack Crawford, 19th-century newspaper correspondent and self-proclaimed “Poet Scout of the Black Hills.”
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Book Review: Apache Tactics, 1830–86
In Apache Tactics, Indian wars scholar Robert Watt explores the strategy, conditioning and other attributes of this warrior tribe of the American Southwest.
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Film Review: Frontier Marshal (2012)
In this new release of the fanciful 1939 version of Frontier Marshal, Randolph Scott portrays Wyatt Earp, Cesar Romero his friend Doc “Halliday.”
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Maynard Dixon – Art of the West
Maynard Dixon captured the true shapes and colors of the desert Southwest as no other artist before or since.
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Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday Rate As the Most Famous Frontier Friends
Earp and Holliday had a friendship as famed as their 1881 fight with the Cowboys in Tombstone.
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How close was Germany to defeating Britain?
How close was Germany to bringing Great Britain to its knees in WW2? Clay […]
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Daily Quiz for October 2, 2012
Queen Victoria blamed this person for the death of her beloved husband, Prince Albert.
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Daily Quiz for October 1, 2012
This World War II officer became the first American citizen-soldier to command a combat corps since the Civil War.