Among the many questionable incidents people often repeat about Wyatt Earp’s life story, few reveal the duplicity of his…
Yellowstone’s Early Explorer Charles W. Cook’s ties to America’s first national park was almost entirely lost in flames.
Charles W. Cook participated in several important episodes of Montana’s frontier history, but sometimes his accomplishme…
Bozeman’s Darkest Night The heroic myth of the Montana Vigilantes gets a reality check with this tale of an 1873 mob.
When the log battering ram crashed against the jailhouse door, the prisoners inside cowered against the far wall, scream…
A Skirmish with the Bottle Instead of the Braves Lieutenant Lovell Hall Jerome and the Battle of Blackfoot Pass.
The life of a frontier soldier in the American West involved more combat with boredom than forays against hostile tribes…
The Most Contemptible Character I Ever Saw New evidence places Warren Earp in Cochise County during the height of the 1886 Geronimo Campaign.
During the summer of 1886 in the midst of the Geronimo campaign in southern Arizona, Capt. Gustavus Cheyney Doane wrote …
Up the Winds and Over the Tetons (University of New Mexico Press, $34.95)
In 1860, Capt. William F. Raynolds, along with Jim Bridger and Dr. F.V. Hayden, explored the headwaters of the Yellowsto…