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Book Review: After Custer, by Paul L. Hedren

HistoryNet Staff | Published: March 30, 2012 at 10:32 pm
Paul L. Hedren shares his unprecedented knowledge of the Great Sioux War in After Custer, an account of the rapid changes on the Plains in the wake of the Little Bighorn.

Book Review: Custer's Best, by Colonel French L. MacLean

HistoryNet Staff | Published: March 30, 2012 at 10:17 pm
In Custer's Best, U.S. Army veteran Colonel French L. MacLean relates the history of 7th U.S. Cavalry Company M, one of a dozen companies that followed George Custer to the Little Bighorn in June 1876 and fought atop Reno Hill.

Book Review: Deep Trails in the Old West, by Frank Clifford

HistoryNet Staff | Published: March 30, 2012 at 9:48 pm
The memoir Deep Trails in the Old West highlights Welsh-born ranch hand Frank Clifford, a peripheral player in the dramatic events that rocked frontier New Mexico.

Book Review: Judge William H. Stilwell, by Roy B. Young

HistoryNet Staff | Published: March 30, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Roy Young highlights Arizona Territory Judge William H. Stilwell in this biography, the first volume of a trilogy about the Stilwell family in the Wild West.

DVD Review: Treasures 5: The West, 1898-1938

HistoryNet Staff | Published: March 30, 2012 at 8:57 pm
The National Film Preservation Foundation takes a look at the "real West" that followed and overlapped the real West in its latest "Treasures" release "The West, 1898-1938."

Movie Review: Blackthorn

HistoryNet Staff | Published: March 30, 2012 at 8:32 pm
A what-if drama centered on Western outlaw Butch Cassidy, "Blackthorn" isn't a bad film, but it is a strange film.

Book Review: Kit Carson, by David Remley

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 06, 2012 at 12:46 am
David Remley sifts the existing scholarship to provide a balanced profile of a Kit Carson that was neither hero nor villain but a complex and nuanced frontier figure.

Book Review: Wyatt Earp in San Diego, by Garner A. Palenske

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 06, 2012 at 12:25 am
Garner Palenske relates the little-known story of Wyatt and Josie Earp's post-Tombstone life in San Diego.

Book Review: Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek, by Louis Kraft

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:59 pm
With this new biography Louis Kraft establishes himself as the authority on Indian wars figure Ned Wynkoop.

Book Review: Legal Executions After Statehood in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, by R. Michael Wilson

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:43 pm
R. Michael Wilson releases the third volume in his Legal Executions After Statehood series.

Book Review: Desperadoes of the Ozarks, by Larry Wood

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:26 pm
Larry Wood relates 22 new tales of gunfights and other notorious incidents in his latest history of the Ozarks.

Book Review: The Settlers' War, by Gregory Michno

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:10 pm
Gregory Michno takes a hard look at the bitter frontier conflict between Texas settlers and Indians in the 1860s.

TV Series Review: Hell on Wheels

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 05, 2012 at 10:50 pm
Hell on Wheels aspires to the success of such successful series as Mad Men or Deadwood, but the jury remains out.

Book Review: Dakota Dawn, by Gregory F. Michno

HistoryNet Staff | Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:38 pm
In his latest book, Dakota Dawn, Gregory Michno tracks the bloody first week of the 1862 Minnesota Sioux Uprising.

Movie Review: Meek's Cutoff

HistoryNet Staff | Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Meek's Cutoff, directed by Kelly Reichardt, offers a sometimes agonizingly realistic look at life on the Oregon Trail of the 1840s.

Book Review: Kearny’s March, by Winston Groom

HistoryNet Staff | Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Winston Groom's new book, Kearny's March, is the story of a year (1846-47) as related through the personal vignettes of several historic figures.
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