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The Top 10 War Books of All Time

by HistoryNet Staff5/24/20183/22/2022

We asked 50 military historians what they consider the 10 best war books ever written. Here are their picks—with a surprise or two.

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Wild West DVD Review: Sitting Bull- A Stone in My Heart

by Amy Chan5/16/2018

Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart Lillimar Pictures,Santa Barbara, Calif.,(www.sittingbull film.com),83-minute documentary,2006, $20.98. […]

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The Frontier Army Museum, Fort Leavenworth

by Deb Goodrich5/14/2018

The Kansas museum has more than a few soldier surprises. The soldiers of the […]

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Celebrating the Fourth Frontier-Style

by Gregory Lalire5/14/20184/1/2024

Twenty-eight years after the United States proclaimed its independence from England, somebody west of […]

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Sitting Bull Rests, But Is He at Peace?

by Bill Markley5/14/2018

The debate continues over where his bones belong. The 16-year-old boy caught the horse […]

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The First ‘Buffalo Bill’ Was Named William Mathewson, not Cody

by Layton L. Hooper5/11/20184/24/2024

The Kansas frontiersman never became a living legend.

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Wild West Book Review: Deadliest Indian War in the West

by Steve Mauro5/10/2018

The Deadliest Indian War in the West: The Snake Conflict, 1864–68 by Gregory Michno, […]

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Wild West Book Review: A Terrible Glory

by Amy Chan5/10/2018

A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn—the Last Great Battle of the American […]

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Wild West Book Review: Sitting Bull

by Steve Mauro5/9/2018

Sitting Bull by Bill Yenne, Westholme Publishing, Yardley, Pa., 2008, $29.95. In 1877 New […]

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The Hounds That Tamed the West

by Rich Byerly5/9/2018

Big, strong, fast and courageous, these dogs of many names cornered quarry for such […]

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