I guess you could say Zebulon Pike made a grand circle tour in 1806-07, although that wasn’t his intention when he set out on a reconnaissance of...
Zebulon Pike’s Wandering Explorations
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Zebulon Pike’s Wandering Explorations
I guess you could say Zebulon Pike made a grand circle tour in 1806-07, although that wasn’t his intention when he set out on a reconnaissance of...
Digging Up Massacres
Since the day it happened, Sand Creek Massacre has maintained its station as one of the most emotionally charged and con-troversial events in...
Did She Strike Down Custer?
The end of the world began that day. Not slowly or quietly, not piece by piece or by degrees, but as a calamity that brings another and another and...
The “Dirt” on Spur Winners
Why Oklahoma has agreed to do the novel of this aging academic, I do not know,” Willard Wyman wrote the editors and marketing department of the...
Stuck to Her Dream
"I buried Pecker in his favorite place. I’d seen him come to pray here sometimes early of a morning when the sun was just coming over the eastern...
Blazing the Mullan Road
Army engineers bent on establishing a wagon route across Montana and into the Pacific Northwest began surveys and explorations in 1853 for what...
Oklahoma’s 101 Ranch
In 1879, Col. George Washington Miller with son, Joe, then age 11, rode across the...
Military Chronicler
Sandwiched between his first writing and editing jobs with the Valley Morning Star in Harlingen, Texas, and his current gig as a history professor...
Hired Out for a Tough Hand
Jane Burnett was not even seven years old as she sat on her pony “huddled over the saddle horn, icicles hanging from the end of my nose,” positioned...
It’s Gotta Be the Choctaws
It is impossible to label D.L. Birchfield as a writer, with one exception: All of his work in some way deals with American Indians, often his own...
From 9.11 to the Alamo
This retired New York City fireman became a hero himself when he stood at Ground Zero on 9.11 and helped victims of the terrorist attacks of the...