Art, Guns and Culture
Starvation Winter

Starvation Winter

"Any time I cash in now, I win,” Charles M. Russell wrote, a few months before his death on October 24, 1926, in the introduction for his short...

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Eating Out

Eating Out

A basic necessity in frontier camps, restaurants often started out in tents. An evolution took place as wagons rolled west and pioneers arrived to...

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The Myth of Whiskey

The Myth of Whiskey

Not all American West pioneers walked up to bars, like Hollywood Westerns often portray, and ordered shots of whiskey. In fact, most would have...

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Crusade for a Chief

Crusade for a Chief

He resembled George Washington and helped save Gen. George Crook’s men at the Battle of the Rosebud during the Great Sioux War of 1876—this Shoshone...

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