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Dr. Shadid’s Maverick Medicine
Affordable quality health care for everyone became a reality for one Oklahoma town in the depths of the Great Depression.
Medicine Bill Comstock – Saga of the Leatherstocking Scout
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.
Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in America (Book Review)
Reviewed by Luc Nettleton By Wayne Bethard Taylor Trade Publishing (Roberts Rinehart), Lanham, Md., […]
Book Review: Ghost Dancing: Sacred Medicine and the Art of JD Challenger (text by Edwin Daniels, paintings and drawings by JD Challenger) : WW
Ghost Dancing: Sacred Medicine and the Art of JD Challenger, text by Edwin Daniels, […]
Oscar Wilde Bothered and Bewildered Westerners While Touring to Promote Gilbert and Sullivan
Poet and playwright Oscar Wilde was no slouch at drawing crowds, critics and cash during his seven-week ramble of the American West in 1882.
Buffalo Bill Delighted Italian Fans by Bringing His Wild West Across the Ocean Blue at the Turn of the Century
Cody came, saw and conquered much of Italy during his 1890 and 1906 tours.
Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Shannon, Set to Star in President Garfield Assassination Historical Drama
Macfadyen is set to play a self-castrating assassin — basically, Tom Wambsgans all over again.
Was George Armstrong Custer Really A Terrible Strategist?
Did Custer simply walk into disaster at the Little Bighorn? Here’s an in-depth look at his last military decisions.
This Kiowa Chief Kept to the Road of Peace — Until He Didn’t
In 1870 Kiowa detractors goaded Kicking Bird into fighting the bluecoats.