In the 1880s, Deana Doyle taught in a one-room schoolhouse in Nevada. One room […]
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Effective Iron at the Battle of Packsaddle Mountain
The weapons used by both Texans and Indians in the Battle of Packsaddle Mountain […]
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Every Inch a King: Kamiakin
A mid-19th-Century traveler, passing through the land of the Yakimas in then Washington Territory, […]
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Three Crossings of Sweetwater
At various times in the early 1860s, Pony Express riders, stagecoach employees, telegraph operators and frontier soldiers were all ‘stationed’ at a site near the Sweetwater River where emigrants on the Oregon Trail forded the river three times.
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Book Review: The Liberation of Paris / How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light
Among the many books chronicling Paris’s liberation, Jean Edward Smith’s final work stands out.
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The Mysterious Henry Plummer
If you travel to southwestern Montana’s “Gold Country,” you will hear a name from […]
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A Shooting Affair in Old Florence
Hard case pals Cherokee Bob and Billy Mayfield both had an interest in ‘Red-haired […]
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Battle of Packsaddle Mountain: Texans and a Mule vs. Apaches
Cowboy Pink Ayers was not particularly proficient in the saddle, so he rode a […]
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William Sidney ‘Cap’ Light, Soapy Smith’s brother-in-law
The notorious con artist Soapy Smith was his brother-in-law, but that didn’t dim the […]
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Nat and Robert Martin Pinned Together by an Arrow
Because the west was so wild in the mid-1860s, with hostilities between Plains Indians […]