A century and a half ago, Civil War hero General Ulysses S. Grant was fated to become the Republican nominee for president of the United States. Grant was respected for his wartime leadership and post-war leadership of the Army. In 1868, the nation was in the midst of deep political, sectional and regional divisions over President Andrew Johnson’s administration, Reconstruction and the Western Ind

True West March 2018
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- What History Has Taught Me: Brian Downes
- Does Consumption Exist Today?
- Cattle, Cowboys and Culture
- Western Events for March 2018
- Back to Basque
- Sarah “Great Western” Bowman Reportedly Died of a Tarantula Bite. Is Tarantula Venom that Poisonous?
- Fake News Guru
- The Oatman Massacre
- What Happened to the Scalp that “Buffalo Bill” Cody Took from Cheyenne Warrior Yellow Hair at Warbonnet Creek in 1876?
- America’s First Cavalry Blade
- Gem City of the Plains
- Big Year for Custer Guns
- How are Cattle Brands read, and how do Ranchers select them?
- Sitting with Wyatt Earp
- Is Pancho Villa’s “Punitive Expedition” the same as the “Mexican Expedition?”
- The Suspect Savannah Strike