A former cabinet head of Crow Homeland Security for Crow Agency, Montana, Alden Big Man Jr. earned his Ph.D. in the History department at University of New Mexico.
His research focuses on Plains Indian Tribes, and he is working on a biography about George Custer’s Crow scout Curly. As director of the Crow Tribe’s Water Resources Department, which broke ground in 2012, he oversees

True West August 2018
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Starr of a Publicity Photo
- Tubac on the Spanish Colonial Frontier
- Horse Race at Castle Gate
- Colorado City, Arizona City, and Finally Yuma
- More than a Barkeep
- Shooting the Silhouette
- Frontier Women
- Land Grabbers
- Bisbee Queen of the Copper Camps
- The Night of Blood
- Keep it in the Family
- The Outlaw Trail
- Winged Victory
- A Bad Man Goes Down
- The Cheyenne Go On Trial
Departments
- What History Has Taught Me: Alden Big Man Jr.
- What were the Strongest Indian Tribes of the 19th Century?
- Western Events for August 2018
- Virginia City, Nevada: Queen of the Comstock
- Were Schoolteachers Armed during the Old West Era?
- Who Stopped the Near-Showdown Between Gunfighters “Doc” Holliday and John Ringo?
- Hell on Wheels Meals
- Trailing the Wild Bunch
- How did Slim-Hipped Westerners keep their Gunbelts in Place?
- Shoot-Out in El Paso
- A Daring Sense of Humor
- Hollywood’s Flintlock Fakery
- Custer’s Last Strand
- Why Did Hopis Capture Eagles?
- America’s Cowboys Get Their Due
- Black Hills and Gold Dust