Raise your glass to the Sourdoughs in saloons across Alaska this year. Even more visitors are expected to take in Alaska…
Road to Gold & Redemption Thousands headed north to escape economic troubles in the Old West’s last great gold rush.
If a singular word describes the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush, it is audacious. Everything about this rush for riches was aud…
Burning Through Texas The only tribe to burn and kill its way to a sea inflamed the ire of the Texian Army.
To burn through Texas to the Gulf of Mexico was a vision that came to Chief Buffalo Hump that captured the imagination o…
The Buffalo Hunters’ War Dying buffalo herds drove a stake into the heart of Comanches who rained their revenge on Pat Garrett, Charles “Buffalo” Jones and an army of buffalo hunters.
Comanche Chief Black Horse stared out across the High Plains of West Texas in December 1876 in disbelief. The grasslands…
A Campaign from Hell Overshadowed by the fame of other Great Sioux War campaigns, the U.S. Army’s 1876 horse meat march showed grit and courage.
America was celebrating its centennial when word came of George Custer’s destruction by the Lakota Sioux at the Little B…
Arrest Those Spies! How close did Spain come to arresting explorers Lewis and Clark?
With all the pomp the Spanish officer could muster so far from present-day Santa Fe, New Mexico, Lt. Facundo Melgares ro…
Scout for Two Continents The little-known story of a Pleasant Valley War survivor whose Arizona adventures led him to Africa.
The harsh winter of 1882 was finally melting away as both the kid and his horse resembling starved scarecrows made their…
Jack London’s Alaska The first blow-by-blow account of the author’s Klondike journey that inspired his tales of the last frontier.
Jack London was only 21 years old when he stepped ashore in Alaska in 1897 to find his fortune in gold. What do you thin…
Lt. Henry Allen Second only To Lewis and Clark.
Twenty-five-year-old Army Lt. Henry Allen stood in the Alaskan wilderness in 1885, staring up at the giant columns of fr…
Pistol Pete The man behind the sports mascot.
Today, Pistol Pete, his six-shooters popping the air, is the iconic symbol for three Western universities: Oklahoma Stat…