Present-day rendezvous of hardy men—and women and children—pay homage to the mountain men of the 1830s.
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John Coleman – Art of the West
The Prescott, Ariz., artist has captured Sitting Bull, Gall and Crazy Horse in his sculpture, “1876.”
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‘Fight No More Forever’ Sounds Good
Certain Indian leaders, chief among them Joseph of the Nez Perce, were eloquent speakers, though their actual words were sometimes lost in translation.
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Book Review: The Heart of Everything That Is, by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
Though Red Cloud’s life is far from an “untold” story, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin offer fresh insights into the Lakota’s chief’s legendary exploits in this new biography.
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Wild Bill’s Brawl with Two of Custer’s Troopers
Exactly what happened in that Hays City saloon remains a mystery, but details have since emerged about the two 7th Cavalry troopers shot by Deputy U.S. Marshal Hickok
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Letter From Military History – September 2013
The postwar “blame game” is a simplistic way to form order out of chaos, but it ultimately leads to a distortion of the complicated, real-life history of what happened.
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The Battle of Rosebud, A to Z
The Battle of the Rosebud pitted the vaunted warrior Crazy Horse against the greatest Indian fighter the U.S. Army had at the time—that is, Crook not Custer
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Could Custer Have Won?
Paul Andrew Hutton receives Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award for his MHQ story
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Book Review: The Last Outlaws / The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Author Thom Hatch delivers a dual biography of Butch and Sundance, notorious outlaws as inseparable in life as in death.
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Book Review: Custer, by Larry McMurtry
Author and popular novelist Larry McMurtry applies his storytelling skills to a short biography of George Armstrong Custer, though he covers little new ground.