No one can come to the story of the Alamo without shock and awe. The tiny Spanish mission, built for prayer, not battle; 13 days in the cold of...
The Sound of the Alamo
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Jana Bommersbach
A Surprise for Lewis and Clark
One of the biggest surprises in the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1803 was what they found in the future North Dakota. The American explorers...
The Real Arizona Charlie
These days, the name is on a Las Vegas casino and a Dawson City theater, but folks in Yuma, Arizona, knew the real man behind the name. He was born...
What A Fox
Chances are good that Eloise Fox ran away from a convent at the age of 16 in 1914 because of either a sexy cowboy or a chance to break out of the...
One of the Dirtiest Places in the World
That's how journalist Clara Spalding Brown first described Tombstone, Arizona Territory, when she arrived in June of 1880 from San Diego with her...
The Fort Nobody Forgot
Before Dakota Territory formed on March 2, 1861, the land was home to Fort Abercrombie—the first permanent U.S. military fort in what became North...
His Final, Frantic Defense
In the last seconds of his life, Col. George Armstrong Custer tried to bite off the nose of the warrior who was killing him. It was June 25, 1876 at...
“I am A Friend to any Brave and Gallant Outlaw”
Belle Starr said that, the “bandit queen” who liked her men, her moonshine and her stolen horses. There's a part of her legend that speaks of...
A Natural Born Businesswoman
That's one way to describe Nellie Cashman, one of the Old West's most famous entrepreneurs, who showed the gold in her heart to the miners who...
As a Farm Woman Thinks
The first time anyone ever read a word written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, it was in the column she wrote for the Missouri Ruralist from around 1911...
Priceless Mormon Treasure
Vicky Doolittle knew her great-aunt’s house in Mendon, Utah, contained an amazing secret. Yet when she tried to tell others in her family, they...
Arizona’s Lady Admiral
By the time Nellie Trent Bush won national attention as “Admiral of Arizona's Navy,” Arizona well knew it had one helluva woman in its midst. But...