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Never Wasted a Bullet Yanosha was one of Geronimo’s bravest Chiricahua Apache Warriors.
He was known as one of the bravest of Geronimo’s warriors, a sharpshooter who never wasted a bullet. He also helped othe…
Breaking Broncs with the Bow-Gun Boys A famous pioneer photographer recounts the last busting at a historic Montana cow camp.
Around 1885, George “Dick” Ingersoll helped drive a herd of longhorns from Texas to Montana Territory and settled in the…
Adelnietze’s Hit and Run Race with Death A decade after the surrender at Los Embudos.
Adelnietze’s proud bearing is so obvious in C.S. Fly’s photos—the white paint carefully drawn over his nose and face, as…
Slim Pickens A real cowboy who captured the hearts of America.
Show me a magazine cover with a pretty girl, a baby or a dog…and I’ll show you a magazine that sells,” publishing …
Last of the Fast Guns The Pinkertons’ incredible chase of an outlaw popularly known as the Derby Kid.
Few would argue that names made a difference in the Old West. The easy-on-the-tongue alliteration of “Jesse James,” the …
The Secret Artillery Denied a role at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, this Gatling gun crew gives Custerphiles another view of the ill-fated fight.
On May 17, 1876, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the 7th U.S. Cavalry marched from Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Ter…
Rosebud Gets No Respect A nearly forgotten battle is overshadowed by its more glorified successor.
In June 1876, two battles were fought in Montana Territory between the U.S. Army and a coalition of Northern Cheyenne an…
The History of Mules A long overdue look at these real heroes of the American West.
“There is no more useful or willing animal than the Mule. And perhaps there is no other animal so much abused, or so lit…
Finding the Great Canyon On the Gila River Unraveling the mystery behind Seth Eastman’s watercolor from the first U.S.-Mexico boundary survey.
The dramatic Seth Eastman watercolor of a canyon on the Gila River of Arizona, circa 1853, is familiar to many students …