Where have all the buffalo gone? You see, I first visited the Badlands and Black Hills of South Dakota in the late 1980s—before legalized gambling...
More Buffalo than Gold
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Travel & Preservation
Trailing Lewis and Clark
The Missouri River northwest of Bismarck, North Dakota, is not the same river explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark saw in 1805, even though...
Following Billy the Kid
Rex Buchman says the mare I’m riding has been fed rocket fuel, but I don’t believe him. Besides, as our horses enter the Pecos River near Fort...
Down on Lewis & Clark
It’s official: Everybody wants a piece of Lewis & Clark. Except me. Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate what William Clark and Meriwether Lewis...
Following the Arkansas River
I’m driving around Wichita, Kansas, looking for the Arkansas River and I can’t find it. That is probably because I’m pronouncing it like the state...
Following Jesse James
Our usually quiet city was startled last Tuesday by one of the most cold-blooded murders, and heavy robberies on record,” The Liberty Tribune...
Following Custer’s Guidon
Born in 1839 in New Rumley, Ohio, George Armstrong (or Autie, as his sister called him) Custer attended Alfred Stubbins Young Men’s Academy. He...
Warped Planks and Rattlesnakes
Tombstone, Arizona, survived. Scabtown, Texas, didn’t. Then, there are the other burgs, those that boomed, died and yet, in a way, still live. We...
Following the Nez Perce Trail
The words are as moving today as they were when Chief Joseph spoke them on a cold fall day in 1877: “I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are all...
On the Trail of Wild Bill Hickok
May 27, 1837: A son, James Butler, the fifth child was born to William Alonzo and Polly Butler Hickok of Homer (later Troy Grove), Illinois. 1856:...
“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)....
“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)....