Come off it. Everybody gives credit to Dee Brown for changing the way white Americans think about American Indians. Hey, I love Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee today as much as I loved it when I first picked it up in college—and that worn-out 1981 Pocket Books paperback still sits proudly on my bookshelves—but give me a break. The real heroes of the pro-Indian movement started the cause six years earlier. Today—50 years later—let us give proper respect to Thomas Berger and Johnny Cas

August 2014
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- Lewis Kingman
- Single Shot of Southern Comfort
- Ghostly Soldiers March On
- The Blast at Steins Pass
- Robbers of the Rails
- Above and Beyond the Call of Duty
- On the Trail of Bigfoot
- Related to Outlaws
- Barker’s Riches
- Rough Drafts 8/14
- Let Freedom Ring!
- Love Song to the Plains and the Desert West
- Bull Doggin’
- Robert E. Lee’s Legacy East and West
- A Hero Reconsidered
- Kansas Tribe Reconsidered
- Marshal Chet Byrnes Rides Again!
- Deadly Feud Truths Revealed
- Edwin R. Sweeney’s Passion for the West Revealed
- A Sporting Gunfight
- Bitter Tears for Little Big Man
- Going Nuts Out West
- August 2014 Events
- Al Harper
- How frequent was mail service in the Old West?
- What is the Halderman case?
- How did American Indians view Gen. George Crook, who fought so many of them during the Indian Wars?
- Did John Wayne’s brother, Robert, appear in any of his movies?
- A constable testified that a man he killed on a railroad platform in Willcox, Arizona, in 1881 had been “skylarking.” What is that?
- The Oklahoma Kid