Red Cloud’s War: The Bozeman Trail, 1866–1868 (two volumes) by John D. McDermott, The […]
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Wild West Book Review: Appetite for America
Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That […]
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Wild West Book Review: War Party in Blue
War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army by Mark van de […]
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Wild West Book Review: Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary by Steve Friesen, Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, Colo., 2010, $22.95. […]
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Wild West Book Review: The Killing of Crazy Horse
The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2010, […]
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Ghost Town: Shakespeare, New Mexico
A spring in an arroyo near New Mexico’s Pyramid Mountains brought Apaches, Mexicans and […]
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A Colt Single Action Army and Two Rifles Reputedly Owned by Nate Champion
A Wyoming robber later wielded the six-shooter. On April 9, 1892, cowboy and small […]
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New Ulm: Deadliest Indian Attack on a Western Town
A week into their 1862 uprising Dakota warriors assaulted the Minnesota town a second […]
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Champion of the Johnson County War
During the April 9, 1892, siege of Wyoming’s KC Ranch, Nate Champion put up […]
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Fred Harvey and the Harvey Girls: A Dollar, a Dream and a Dinner
He brought good food and potential wives out West. Fred Harvey came West with […]