Jim Compton reviews the 1872–73 Modoc War, a stark clash amid the lava beds along the California-Oregon border.
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Book Review: Orozco
Raymond Caballero studies overlooked Mexican revolutionary Pascual Orozco, a rebel with perhaps too many causes
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Book Review: Shotguns and Stagecoaches
John Boessenecker trails the careers of 20 largely overlooked Wells Fargo detectives and “shotgun messengers”
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Book Review: America’s Best Female Sharpshooter / The Rise and Fall of Lillian Frances Smith
Julia Bricklin assesses the most famous female sharpshooter of the Wild West—surprise, Lillian Smith.
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Book Review: The ‘Trapdoor’ Springfield / From the Little Bighorn to San Juan Hill
John Langellier looks at the iconic “Trapdoor” Springfield rifle, mainstay of the U.S. Army for more than three decades.
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Book Review: Thieves’ Road / The Black Hills Betrayal and Custer’s Path to the Little Bighorn
Terry Mort delves into George Armstrong Custer’s lesser known Black Hills Expedition in 1874.
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Author Robert Utley
Among the best-known writers on the American West, he continues to inform and entertain readers with “The Commanders”
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Alfredo Rodriguez
The painter grew up in Mexico watching Westerns and now renders Old West scenes from his California home
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“Wholesale Murder”: What People Saw at the Wounded Knee Massacre
Lawman George Bartlett operated a trading post on Wounded Knee Creek, was present during the 1890 clash and went on to become a sharpshooting showman.
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Mystery Ship: Can You Identify This Multi-Use Combat Airplane?
This aircraft’s greatest asset was its ability to withstand the rigors of flight high over mountains and down through valleys.