The Custers and other frontier military families endured hardship and horrors during holidays, but did their best to find joy.
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Book Review: Powder River / Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War
Paul Hedren’s new book is the compelling tale of textbook Army preparation and execution undone by circumstances in the field.
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Author-Historian T.J. Stiles
The Minnesotan’s latest book has garnered impressive accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize for history—the author’s second Pulitzer
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Letter From Wild West – February 2017
The other Tennessee Mounted Volunteers all died with David Crockett at the Alamo, but would they have begrudged him his fame?
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Custer’s First Last Stand
Almost every American school kid is familiar with the story of Custer’s Last Stand, […]
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Book Review: The Old West
Stephen Hyslop’s overview of the Old West relates a very American history of the region and its diverse peoples
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Letter From Wild West: June 2016
While revenge might be sweet, it must always take a backseat to survival
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Book Review: Custer’s Trials
T.J. Stiles brings Custer superbly to life while also revealing much about how we got to where we are as a nation
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Book Review: Red Cloud
“Red Cloud did not surrender, die young or flee his country into exile,” notes John McDermott in this concise biography
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Henri Chatillon’s Heart of Lightness
Buffalo hunter and guide Henri Chatillon’s enlightened relationship with the Lakotas had a lasting influence on frontier historian Francis Parkman