Shavetail The 17th century term “Lingo” was rooted in lingua, Latin for “tongue.” One of its definitions—“the vocabulary of a special subject or...
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John Langellier
Following the Guidon: Texas Frontier Forts
Texans take great pride in their storied past, which is as wide and as deep as the vast Lone Star State itself. Nowhere is a sense of bygone days...
Black Buckaroos
During the growing Civil Rights movement of the 1960s such publications as Philip Durham and Everett L. Jones’ groundbreaking 1965 The Negro Cowboys...
Unlikely Saddle Pards
“He doted on stories of his father’s daring exploits in Virginia and Louisiana” as a Civil War Union officer. So wrote renowned historian Peter...
Apache History from the Ndee
The long title of Lori Davisson’s Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout: White Mountain and Cibecue Apache History Through 1881 (University of...
Tombstone’s True Hero
In the spring of 1896, during the manhunt for the Apache Kid, Arizona’s most wanted, Tombstone surveyor H.G. Howe recommended to Sen. William M....
John P. Langellier
Without the 1950s’ ABC series, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, I probably would have taken an entirely different career path, especially after our...
Targeting Equality
One hundred and 50 years ago, radical Republicans led the charge to create opportunities for blacks when, for the first time, they opened the ranks...
Soldiers At Play
Troops serving in the frontier American West spent most of their time on routine matters, occasionally punctuated by hard campaigning, but they also...
Dust-Covered Foot Soldiers
After American troops spent four years fighting the Civil War, the struggle to restore the Union ended with powerful victories by the Northern Army....
Dust-Covered Foot Soldiers
After American troops spent four years fighting the Civil War, the struggle to restore the Union ended with powerful victories by the Northern Army....
Soldiers of the Cross
During an era of official segregation in the U.S. Army, chaplains ministered to both black and white Union regiments fighting in the Civil War....