The Battle of Little Bighorn is likely the most renowned battle in Western history. And, for many history aficionados, walking the hills and coulees where the actually battle occurred—at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument—is a bucket list trip.
Yet, as history buffs know, it is the most minute details that make a story co

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