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Named By Their Enemies
The Spanish asked the Zunis who those renegades were who were running off with all their horses and a Zuni said, “Enemies,” which sounded to the...
Card Player No. 2
Sam Elliott has become one of the most iconic Westerns actor of the last half-century, with his wiry frame, bushy mustache and rumbling drawl. None...
Wyatt on the Phone: “Can You Hear Me Now?”
In 1926, Wyatt Earp wrote his autobiography with a friend, John Flood. In it Earp recalled using a telephone in Tombstone (taking a call from...
A Western Movie Morph
The 1965 John Wayne Western The Sons of Katie Elder went through a bunch of changes before it was produced. Originally, it was to be a historical...
First in War, First in Peace
Perhaps the greatest chief of the Chiricahua Apaches who ever lived, Cochise fought his way through southeastern Arizona and into Mexico in the...
The Civil War in Utah
Books chronicling 19th-century Mormon history tend to fall into two camps: apologetic or polemic. John Gary Maxwell’s The Civil War Years in Utah:...
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In Southeast Montana, experience the compelling history that shaped this one-of-a-kind region. Discover the epic stories of our past whether...