The Wild West
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Concerned that the Indians in the village would escape, George Armstrong Custer ordered his force forward to the attack. Did Reno and Benteen try to hide the true nature of the attack?
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:10 pm
George A. Custer's 7th Cavalry had Springfield carbines and Colt .45 revolvers; the Lakota and Cheyenne Indians had a variety of long arms, including repeaters. But were the weapons used on June 25, 1876, the deciding factor in the famous battle?
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:09 pm
Jesse and the gang patted children on the head, bowed to ladies, kidded around, quoted Shakespeare, targeted rich Yankees and wrote their own account of the robbery for the newspapers -- in short, they created a legend.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:09 pm
When a steamboat first appeared on the Colorado River in 1852, some Indians were afraid, but they would get plenty of chances to become used to the belching boats during the next 25 years.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:09 pm
From remote mining camps in northern California in the early 1850s, Louise ('Dame Shirley') Clapp wrote a series of vivid letters to her sister in New England.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Recreation in the Old West oftentimes meant betting on the turn of a deck of cards. But for many colorful Westerners, gambling was a serious, sometimes deadly, business.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:08 pm
The tragedy and the irony of the man who discovered a nugget on the South Fork of the American River and set in motion the rush to a new El Dorado.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:07 pm
After helping his people win the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the daring Oglala leader fought thesoldiers again at Slim Buttes in September 1876 and the Wolf Mountains in January 1877 before finally surrendering at Camp Robinson that May.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Texas cowhands-turned-outlaws Tom and Sam Ketchum, along with range pals like David Atkins and Will Carver, robbed trains and became notorious in the Southwest.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:07 pm
The 'Second Belle Starr' was arrested for her role in a bank robbery in Pineville, Missouri.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:07 pm
The federal expedition into Utah Territory in 1857-58, which pitted President James Buchanan's U.S. Army against Brigham Young's Nauvoo Legion, was largely a bloodless affair, but misjudgments, embarrassments and expenses abounded.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Annie Oakley was no Westerner, but her peerless shooting and style made her the western woman.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Did Hickok 'Buck the Tiger'? Did Holliday 'Twist the Tiger's Tail'? You bet. While the west was being won, many westerners were losing at Faro.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Possessing abundant ability and Napoleonic ambition, the Canadian-born entrepreneur Jim Hill believed that his new railway would fill the wasted northern Plains with settlers.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:07 pm
He was by Billy the Kid's side when Sheriff William Brady was killed and when Alexander McSween's house was set on fire, yet little else is known about the one-time 'Regulator.'
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:07 pm
The only woman on the 1811-12 overland expedition led by Wilson Price Hunt, Marie Dorion endured more hardships than a more famous female Indian traveler, Sacagawea.
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