Jesse Chisholm’s trail led from Texas to Abilene, Kansas, and driving a herd of half-wild Longhorns over it was a baptism by fire.
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Philip Wells: Wounded at Wounded Knee
The son of a white father and a half-blood mother, Wells nearly lost his nose in the tragic 1890 affair but still managed to be merciful.
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Picture of the Day: September 27
Sitting Bull, pictured with Buffalo Bill Cody, was a legendary Hunkpapa Sioux chief and […]
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Tet Offensive: 7th Infantry Regiment in Saigon
During the Tet Offensive in 1968, the 7th Infantry Regiment fought a World War II-style urban battle in the South Vietnamese capital.
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Buffalo Soldiers in Utah Territory
At Fort Duchesne, black 9th Cavalry troops served alongside white infantrymen while dealing with the sometimes restless Ute Indians and the wild and woolly Duchesne Strip.
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Picture of the Day: February 9
George Armstrong Custer Marries Libbie Bacon After a courtship that began at a party […]
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Picture of the Day: June 25
To crush the Plains Indians and drive them onto reservations, Lt. Col. George Armstrong […]
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Book Review: Custer Redeemed
George Armstrong Custer, the controversial Civil War cavalier and perennial bad boy of Western […]
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Book Review: Defiance at Sea / Stories of Dramatic Naval Warfare
Defiance at Sea: Stories of Dramatic Naval Warfare, by Jon Guttman (Arms & Armour […]