“We was flabbergasted.” The proud slayers of a huge grizzly are memorialized in one of the most famous photographs in all of Western history. ...

“We was flabbergasted.” The proud slayers of a huge grizzly are memorialized in one of the most famous photographs in all of Western history. ...
Robert M. Utley October 31, 1929 - June 7, 2022 A former student’s personal tribute remembers a great historian, mentor and friend. Robert M....
Since Dodge City was founded 150 years ago, the Kansas cowtown is still the reigning queen of the West. “Queen of the Cowtowns” was the...
True West's Historical Consultant Fondly Remembers his Most Treasured Birthday Gift It was the autumn of 1962, and we had just returned from a...
I first met Robert M. Utley in May 1977. He came to Bloomington to receive a Distinguished Alumni Service Award from Indiana University. I...
Daniel Boone and the Birth of the Frontier Movement
We live in a time of national discord. Americans find themselves adrift in a cultural malaise highlighted by overheated political rhetoric from all...
The Western, be it a novel or a film, always carries with it the burden of history. For much of our nation’s existence, the West was the story of...
A large rodent determined the destiny of Kit Carson, the Mountain Men and much of the American West. The North American beaver, the second-largest...
In late August 1890, a detachment from the U.S. Army Quartermasters Department began the arduous task of exhuming the bodies of the soldiers in the...
General George Crook thoughtfully allowed photographer C.S. Fly to come along to record the event at Cañon de los Embudos for posterity. One of...
William F. Cody was a man seemingly trapped in the distant past, yet one who cared desperately about the onrushing future…