Features & Gunfights Archives

A Bright Particular Star

by Carolyn Eichin | Sep 4, 2022

Ella La Rue and the Performing Variety of Women of the Old West Historian Jill Lepore recently observed that microhistories of unknown people...

by True West | Sep 4, 2022

A portfolio of bold American women who changed the world. Alexis de Tocqueville came to America to study democracy. At the end of his two-volume...

by Jana Bommersbach | Sep 4, 2022

History tried to erase the courageous Arizona journalist, but her remarkable life and work as a publisher is a testament to her courage and her...

After the Battle of Little Bighorn, the seven officers' wives had an immortal bond. On July 29, 1876, Elizabeth Custer requested an audience with...

by Various Authors | Sep 4, 2022

Frederick Nolan March 7, 1931 - June 15, 2022 An English historian redefined the scholarship on Billy the Kid. The one thing that...

Robert M. Utley October 31, 1929 - June 7, 2022 A former student’s personal tribute remembers a great historian, mentor and friend. Robert M....

by Melody Groves | Sep 2, 2022

Historic Train Excursions Coast to Coast From North Carolina to California, Montana to Texas, “ridin’ the rails” is reminiscent of days gone by,...

by Dennis Tuberty | Sep 2, 2022

U.S. Cavalry School at Little Bighorn Battlefield is a real-life history lesson. I stood on the banks of the Little Bighorn River at Medicine Tail...

by Bob Boze Bell | Sep 2, 2022

Billy the Kid vs. Joe Grant - An Eyewitness Revelation January 10, 1880 Bob Hargrove’s saloon in Old Fort Sumner, New Mexico, is packed with...

by Jeff Broome | Sep 2, 2022

Wild Bill’s 1870 drunken brawl with Custer’s troopers is as legendary as the man of many names he killed. On July 17, 1870, Wild Bill Hickok...

The federal government’s betrayal of Army Scout Chato is still a stain on American history. In 1934 Chato, well into his 80s, a shiny silver medal...