In 1835, a small group of Cherokees traded the tribe’s land east of the Mississippi River for land in the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma)....
“I Will Laugh No More While Living”
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Meghan Saar
Wind River Historical Center
When you think of Butch Cassidy, you probably don’t imagine him as a rancher in the Dubois badlands of the upper Wind River Valley. But during the...
“I Will Laugh No More While Living”
In 1835, a small group of Cherokees traded the tribe’s land east of the Mississippi River for land in the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma)....
Seventh Cavalry Sells High
As Autie, he was a boy loved and cherished by his family. But history remembers George Armstrong Custer as the former “boy general” whose rash...
A Pictorial Historian
George Catlin’s paintings were predicted to “grow in importance with advancing years, and when the race of which they are the representation will...
Pounds of “Character Gold Dust”
The little mining camp that could and did survive is none other than Deadwood, South Dakota, the best character found on HBO’s Deadwood series,...
Phippen Art Museum
Artists will find a place of honor at historic Courthouse Square in downtown Prescott, Arizona. George Phippen’s namesake museum, the Phippen Art...
Down to the Last Moccasin
Although Gary Zaboly lives in the East, he asks us not to hold that against him, saying, “Frederic Remington was born in New York and died here,...
The Buffalo Hunt
Francis Parkman wrote in his journal in 1846 that “Once among the buffalo, the hunter, unless long use has made him familiar with the situation,...
Cowboy Up America
When a Cowboy’s in a pinch, he just tightens up the cinch, spurs his horse and rides right through it ’cause that’s the way the Duke’d do it. He’d...
Sings in Color
With a Union Pacific mileage book in hand, Frank Tenney Johnson realized his dream to travel the West by rail. When Johnson saw Pike’s Peak in the...
Bird’s-eye View of 19th-century Mining
If a miner wrote back East of his adventures, he may have sealed his message inside a pictorial lettersheet depicting a bird’s-eye view of the...