He was a 24-year-old New Yorker who wanted to kill a buffalo. That’s how Theodore Roosevelt first came to the Medora area of Dakota Territory in 1883. The next year, he returned a broken man who needed to put his life back together. He would go on to change America—as the youngest president at 42—and it all started with that buffalo hunt. Roosevelt himself declared: “I would never have been president were it not for my experiences in North Dakota.” He’s as close as North Dakota ha

March 2013
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- Are These Arizona Rangers?
- Did Indians Really Whoop and Holler When they Attacked, or is that Just Something in the Westerns?
- What is the historical significance of Arizona’s Sierra Estrellas?
- Festival of Books
- Give Me a Homestead
- Picture-Perfect Custer
- What is the Treaty of Hard Labor?
- Wet Your Whistle at These Historic Saloons
- Red Hot Chili Weapon
- The Gentleman Vigilante
- Candy Moulton
- Was George Custer’s body mutilated after the Little Big Horn battle?
- March 2013 Events
- Did Old West cowboys ever use a two-handed grip to fire their handguns?
- Canyon, Texas
- Billie Bierer’s Buffalo soldier Reads
- Dragoons in Apacheland
- Gunfighter in Gotham
- Texas Dames
- Something Big
- Honoring Elmore
- Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
- The Irish Influence
- Surviving in Tucson…
- On Wild Bunch Time
- Frank Butler
- The Yankee “Sixteen Shooter”
- The Elusive Outlaw
- Back in the Badlands
- The Arizona Rangers