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Interview with Author-Playwright Louis Kraft

David Lauterborn — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:02:41 +0000

Author/Playwright Louis Kraft turns his attention to Indian agent Ned Wynkoop, portraying him onstage.

Interview with Fetterman Fight Author John Monnett

David Lauterborn — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:05:33 +0000

Fetterman Fight expert John Monnett explains his fascination with Plains Indians and speaks about his new book, Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed.

Medicine Bill Comstock – Saga of the Leatherstocking Scout

David Lauterborn — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:31:55 +0000

Medicine Bill Comstock, descendant of James Fenimore Cooper, brought his uncle's mythical Natty Bumppo to life on the Great Plains as a hunter, trapper and cultural go-between.

Interview with George Custer Expert James Donovan

David Lauterborn — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:30:39 +0000

James Donovan, author and George Custer expert, covers new ground in the story of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn in his new book A Terrible Glory.

Ten Myths of the Little Bighorn

David Lauterborn — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:55:28 +0000

Several hundred people witnessed the Sioux and Cheyenne defeat of Lt. Col. George Custer at the June 25, 1876, Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana Territory, so why do so many myths persist about the events that fateful day?

Battle Creek, Texas – Where Surveyors Fought Like Soldiers

GeraldS — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:23:17 +0000

The 1838 Battle of Battle Creek, Texas, also known as the Surveyors’ Fight, pitted a surveying party comprised of veterans of the Texas Revolution against a Kickapoo war band.

Letter from Wild West – October 2008

GeraldS — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:21:34 +0000

Historian Robert Utley examines how the white men in charge made a mess of relations with Indians on the Western frontier. Extermination, if never an official policy, was in fact the order of the day in mid-19th-century California and elsewhere.

How the West was Spun – Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show

GeraldS — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:51:18 +0000

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.

George Armstrong Custer: Changing Views of an American Legend

HistoryNet Staff — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:56:15 +0000

Although he was already a popular figure in his own time, the disaster that doomed George Armstrong Custer on the Little Bighorn forever secured his place in the American mind and mythology.

General Nelson Miles and the Expedition to Capture Geronimo

HistoryNet Staff — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:01:42 +0000

General Nelson Miles summoned Lieutenant Charles Gatewood to Albuquerque in July 1886 and ordered the reluctant veteran of the Apache wars to go find the elusive Chiricahua leader down in the mountains of Mexico.

By Louis Kraft