The June 2018 cover story relates an interview with Sioux icon Sitting Bull months after the Battle of the Little Bighorn
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Letter From Wild West – June 2018
An exclusive interview with Sitting Bull within months of the Little Bighorn fight was no ‘fake news’
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Book Review: The Victory With No Name
Colin Calloway recounts the most lopsided American Indian defeat of the U.S. Army — no, not on the Little Bighorn
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Why Former Confederate Frank Huston Joined Forces With the Sioux
The “unreconstructed Reb” lived among the Lakotas but probably wasn’t at Little Bighorn.
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June 2017 Table of Contents
The June 2017 issue features a cover story about George Armstrong Custer and the personal consequences of his defeat at the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn
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Author Philip Burnham
Philip Burnham’s biography of Dewey Beard is the remarkable saga of a Lakota who killed a trooper at the Little Bighorn and was wounded at Wounded Knee
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June 2016 Table of Contents
The June 2016 issue features a cover story about George Armstrong Custer’s fateful decision to split his command on the Little Bighorn
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Wild West – June 2015 – Table of Contents
The June 2015 issue of Wild West features stories about the company of Arikara soldiers that fought under Reno at the Little Bighorn, artist George Catlin’s “Cartoon Collection,” Texas-born paid assassin Felix Jones, the 1871 Wickenburg Massacre in Arizona Territory and California cop killer Ed Moore
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June 2015 Readers’ Letters
In the June issue of Wild West readers share dispatches about the Marias (aka Baker) Massacre (in present-day Montana) and the later clashes on the Little Bighorn River and near Wounded Knee Creek (in present-day South Dakota)
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Letter From Wild West – June 2015
Most Western history buffs are familiar with the role of the Sioux, Cheyennes and even Crows at the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn. But who knew about the Arikaras?