The major is often badmouthed as the villain of the Little Bighorn, but eyewitnesses […]
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Daily Quiz for May 31, 2011
The worst defeat of the United States Army by Native Americans occurred along this river.
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Baseball in the West
New Yorker Alexander Cartwright brought the game to the frontier during the California Gold Rush, making it truly the national pastime.
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Daily Quiz for December 17, 2010
During the Civil War, George Armstrong Custer became one of the youngest generals in the Union Army at this age
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Interview: S.C. Gwynne / Quanah Parker and the Comanche Nation
Author S.C. Gwynne addresses Quanah Parker’s role in the history of the Comanche Nation is his New York Times best seller “Empire of the Summer Moon.”
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The Falsehoods of Fetterman’s Fight
Captain William Fetterman has been portrayed as an arrogant fire-eater who disobeyed orders and met disaster at Fort Phil Kearny in December 1866. But that familiar picture is distorted.
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Interview: N. Scott Momaday / Pulitzer Prize Winner
Kiowa Writer N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 and now claims WWA’s Owen Wister Award.
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Cheyennes Were Not Always No. 2 in the Fighting
Cheyenne Indians are often overlooked in the chronicles of the 19th century Indian wars, despite having engaged in almost as many fights as the heralded Sioux warriors.
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Kevin Red Star – Art of the West
Crow artist Kevin Red Star paints historical Indian subjects with strength, power and passion.
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How the West was Spun: Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show
Buffalo Bill Cody heralded the closing of the frontier by reassuring Americans that they would never be too civilized to beat the braves and bullies of the world at their own game.