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Tag: Frontiers in History

Decision Point in the Lewis and Clark Expedition

by Anthony Brandt5/10/20178/19/2022
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Did This Lakota Warrior Kill the Custers? Rain-in-the-Face Had a Score to Settle.

by John Koster4/22/20173/27/2024
Jeffords posing with a gun

A Trader’s Unlikely Bond With Cochise Forged 4 Years of Peace With the Apaches

by HistoryNet Staff and Edwin R. Sweeney4/22/20173/31/2024
British actress Laura Keene

Long Before Hollywood, the Gold Rush Drew Starlets to California

by Chris Enss4/22/20178/31/2022
Randolph Marcy

Did You Know There Was a Wild West Guide Book for Settlers? This Officer and Explorer Wrote It.

by John Koster4/22/20178/31/2022
Jumping Bear had been baptized John Grass at age 3.

This Woman Was an Captive Lakota Bride — Until This Sioux Warrior and Diplomat Saved Her

by John Koster4/22/20178/31/2022

Confederate Con Artist Loreta Velasquez

by William C. Davis3/21/20179/2/2022
This Pawnee quartet scouted for the Army in 1869.

Displaced by Settlers and at War With the Sioux, the Pawnee Struggled to Survive

by David McCormick2/26/20178/31/2022
Larpenteur ran this tumbledown fur trading post just west of Fort Union.

Fur Trader Larpenteur Fell in Love with the Frontier — but Found Her to Be a Cruel Mistress

by John Koster2/24/20178/31/2022
Illustration of Kenneth McKenzie

Ruling Like a King, a North Dakota Fur Trader Dispensed Harsh Justice

by John Koster2/23/20178/31/2022

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