He resembled George Washington and helped save Gen. George Crook’s men at the Battle of the Rosebud during the Great Sioux War of 1876—this Shoshone...
Crusade for a Chief
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Jana Bommersbach
The Most Significant July Event in Western History
It's probably a three-way tossup, depending on where your interests lie. It could be July 1, 1862 when President Lincoln set the route for the first...
Always Memorable June
In the history of the West, June will forever be remembered as the month in 1876 that saw the Battle of the Little Bighorn, or “Custer's Last...
The Winchester Haunting
Many have heard the story of the eccentric millionaire of the Victorian Era who spent the last 38 years of her life building, always building, a...
Yuma’s History Comes Home
Yuma, Arizona’s “attic” was all over town—60 years of historical records, photographs and family histories dating as far back as pre-1853 Gadsden...
Knowing What Was Important
“He will sigh to lose his friend, groan if his wife dies, but if his dog is lost by death, his grief is overwhelming.” That's how a 19th Century...
An Imaginative Little “Recipe”
The title of the article is “Recipe for Cooking Husbands,” and it's the kind of title that can't be passed up. So here goes, from the 1974 Potpourri...
Virginia Chow-Chow
One of the favorite condiments of the Old West was chow-chow, a spicy vegetable mixture. This recipe shows why it was so tasty and so popular. Chop,...
A Few Quotations We Shouldn’t Forget
“Leave me alone and let me go to hell by my own route!” Famous almost-last words of Calamity Jane shortly before her death in Deadwood, South...
She Knew Because She’d Lived the Life
Abbie Ware Crabb Keith well knew how lonely and isolated ranch life could be. Perhaps that's why the newsletter she founded in 1923—theArizona...
Secrets from the Horse’s Mouth
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, one of the New Deal programs was to pay writers to document the stories of everyday Americans. It was...
How Far Would You Walk to Get Home?
Around 1860, Diltche was captured by another tribe and sold into slavery, taken far away from her home in north-eastern Arizona. She ended up at a...