Perhaps the most riveting moment in American history to date was 2:40 p.m., Monday, May 10, 1869. Today, we know that as the moment when the last...

When Arizona writer and historian Peter Aleshire introduced Lozen in his book, Warrior Woman, he said this: “The stories of Geronimo, Crazy Horse,...

When Eve Ball started telling the “oral history” stories she'd heard from the last living warriors who knew Cochise, Victorio, Juh and Geronimo,...

The songs of the Dakota and Chippewa would have been lost forever had it not been for a Minnesota pioneer woman who decided their historical...

That's one of the names they called Sarah Bowman. “The Great Western” was another moniker—borrowing the name of the world's largest steamship. Both...

Mattie Silks. Hollywood couldn't have done better if it wanted to name one of the most famous and successful “love merchants” of the Old West. Her...

Molly Ott didn’t realize she was a modern-day “homesteader” who would repeat a 150-year-old legacy when she moved her family from Phoenix, Arizona,...

Until Willa Cather, literature in America was dominated by writers from New York and Boston. Immigrants were either ignored or portrayed as objects...