Wild West
Published: February 06, 2012 at 1:54 am
The April 2012 issue of Wild West features stories about Lakota Sioux leader Red Cloud, California Ranger Harry Love and the grisly end of bandido Joaquin Murrieta, the 1874 locust plague on the Great Plains, the unusual early life of Bat Masterson's wife Emma, and shotgun messenger Clark Stocking.
Published: February 06, 2012 at 1:30 am
Whom do you consider the most significant Lakota (Sioux) of the Old West: Sitting Bull, a warrior turned spiritual leader and Little Bighorn participant; Crazy Horse, another Little Bighorn participant and a relentless warrior in other battles; Red Cloud, a …
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:43 pm
R. Michael Wilson releases the third volume in his Legal Executions After Statehood series.
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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.
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.
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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.
Chuck Lyons |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Like hail and rain they fell from the sky—120 billion hungry insects hell-bent on ravishing the Great Plains farmland. The locusts, farmers quipped, 'ate everything but the mortgage.'
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 9:19 pm
Allen and Patty Eckman found a new home in Rapid City, S.D., and the inspiration to drive their unique sculpting method.
Candy Moulton |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 8:52 pm
Prolific writer Johnny D. Boggs excels at stories of Jesse James, Billy the Kid, the Civil War, baseball and Western films.
Published: February 05, 2012 at 6:18 pm
In the February issue of Wild West, readers chime in on the Fort Worth Five photograph, Finn Burnett and the very much alive town of Columbia, Calif.
Gregory Lalire |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 5:37 pm
Red Cloud often gets third billing—behind Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse—in the annals of Sioux history, but that is selling short his historic contributions, says R. Eli Paul, editor of the great chief's autobiography
Published: December 02, 2011 at 6:26 pm
The February 2012 issue of Wild West features stories about the Homestead Act of 1862, Prohibition cowboy Richard "Two-Gun" Hart, Arizona's and New Mexico's respective statehood centennials, the conflicting stories of a Fort Laramie hanging, and the Battle of the Hot Springs (Ark.) Gamblers.
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:49 pm
The U.S. government passed the Homestead Act 150 years ago to prompt Americans to settle the Great Plains. Would you have jumped at the chance to claim your own "free" land in a remote, difficult environment where Indian attacks were …
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