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...
Hired Out for a Tough Hand
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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...
Clark on the Yellowstone
The plan had been set in 1805 when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark noted where the Yellowstone River joined the Missouri and later gazed upon the...
Trailing John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell came to Wyoming’s Green River City in 1869 to launch the first of his two expeditions down the Colorado River. Earlier, in...
Trailing Wilson Price Hunt’s Astorians West
Soon after forming the Pacific Fur Company, New Yorker Wilson Price Hunt developed a plan to begin fur trade exploitation in the Pacific Northwest....
Following Butch and Sundance
Robert LeRoy Parker—born April 13, 1866, in the small town of Beaver, Utah, to Mormon parents Maximilian and Ann Parker—spent his early years in...
Word Baron
In over 75 books from the Rivers West series to those on the Baron family of Texas, Jory Sherman has brought to life a complex mix of stories and...
A Rancher’s Big Heart Goes the Distance
When C.B. Irwin rode into an arena and announced an event, he did not need a megaphone for this big man had a booming voice. Although his Stetson...
Entertaining the Masses
With a face seen by millions because it has been on more than 100 TV documentaries and a career as a professor of history at the University of New...
Cheyenne Breakout
At 10 p.m. on September 7, 1878, Little Wolf, Dull Knife, Wild Hog and over 300 Northern Cheyenne warriors, women and children fled Darlington...
Trailing Doc Holliday through Colorado
Doc Holliday first saw Denver in 1876. Although his reputation was made in Texas, Dodge City and certainly Tombstone, it was to Colorado that he...