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Kohn family store, New Mexico Territory

How a Young Jewish Immigrant Widow Launched a Ranching Dynasty in New Mexico Territory

by Jim Winnerman3/10/20233/10/2023

After her husband’s untimely death, Yetta Kohn joined forces with her sons and daughter to run the family store, bank and ranch.

The removal of the Cherokee Native Americans to the West in 1838. Oil on canvas, 1942, by Robert Lindneux.

The Supreme Court Case That Decided Indian Sovereignty

by Daniel B. Moskowitz9/6/20229/6/2022

Killing Billy the Kid

by Greg Lalire7/15/20228/19/2022

Watch One of the Greatest Westerns of All Time in Its Entirety Here

by Michael Y. Park6/20/20228/19/2022

Doc Holliday’s Life and Death Were the Stuff of Legend. The Facts Are Even More Amazing.

by Ben Traywick6/1/20228/19/2022

This Indigenous Hero Won the Military Cross for Valor. His Son Would Star in ‘The Lone Ranger.’

by David T. Zabecki1/11/20228/19/2022

How Billy the Kid Died, as Sheriff Pat Garrett Tells It

by Christine M. Kreiser12/9/20198/19/2022

White Captives, Tribal Comrades

by Peter Carlson2/18/20198/19/2022

Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett: The Real Men Behind the Legends

by Gregory F. Michno12/28/20189/26/2022

An image of the Mexican military commander and politician. (Everett Collection Inc.)

Mexico’s Napoléon: Who Was Santa Anna, the General Who Defeated the Texians at the Alamo?

by Paul Andrew Hutton2/19/20189/19/2022