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Tag: The Western Frontier

An image of the Mexican military commander and politician. (Everett Collection Inc.)

Mexico’s Napoléon: Who Was Santa Anna, the General Who Defeated the Texians at the Alamo?

by Paul Andrew Hutton2/19/20189/19/2022
doctor-montezuma-1890

Once a Child Captive, Dr. Carlos Montezuma Became a Voice for American Indians

by David McCormick2/19/20184/2/2024
Empire miners chip away in 1900 inside a mine William Bowers Bourn had acquired 31 years earlier.

How Cornish Workers Saved California’s Richest Gold Mine From Ruin

by John Koster2/19/20189/19/2022
Longtime lawman Jesse Benton was in his mid-60s when elected to a two-year term as Ouray County sheriff in 1896

This Sharpshooting Colorado Lawman Survived Three Decades on the Job Without a Scratch

by Jim Pettengill2/19/20189/19/2022

How Custer Met His End at Little Bighorn

by Robert M. Utley2/2/20188/19/2022

The Man Who Beat Jesse James in Court — and Took His Favorite Horse

by Jim Muehlberger1/23/20188/19/2022

Frontier Hero or Murderous Outlaw—Who Was the Real Wyatt Earp?

by HistoryNet Staff10/9/20174/29/2024

Smallpox Blankets: Myth or Massacre?

by John Koster8/15/20179/2/2022
Western gunslingers Wyatt Earp and "Doc" Holliday

Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday Were as Different as Night and Day—or Were They?

by Gary L. Roberts8/11/20179/9/2022
Train station in Nebraska in 1877.

How a Shopkeeper Nabbed the Infamous Black Hills Bandits

by John Flood6/29/20178/31/2022

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