Before George Armstrong Custer’s 7th U.S. Cavalry made its mark out West, the 7th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry was busy battling Plains Indians.
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Book Review: Where the Rivers Ran Red
Michael Donahue’s well-researched book chronicles the Indian fights of George Armstrong Custer
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Frank D. Baldwin’s service as an Indian fighter
Hardly known today, this soldier not only earned two Medals of Honor, a rare […]
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Louis Riel’s Last Stand
Canada’s North-West Rebellion reached its climax in May 1885, as the government army closed […]
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Charles E. Rankin: Bound to the Western Story
The retired University of Oklahoma Press chief editor isn’t about to ride off into the sunset
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View of the Sioux
The Brulé Sioux of the Rosebud Agency came to accept their neighbor John Anderson […]
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Into the West’s outlook on Manifest Destiny vs. How the West Was Won
Those of us baby boomers born in the 1940s and 1950s grew up learning […]
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The Remington rolling block
“With your rifle I killed far more game than any other single party [on […]
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Gall: The Fighting Cock of the Sioux
Soldiers gave the Hunkpapa leader his nickname because he was a dashing warrior who […]
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Wild West Book Review: Indian Wars
Indian Wars: The Campaign for the American West by Bill Yenne,Westholme Publishing,Yardley, Pa., 2006, […]