Directed and narrated by Garry R. Hood, this documentary shares the stories of 10 Apache scouts awarded the Medal of Honor in 1875 for their role in...
Red Cloud’s War
Since first visiting Wyoming’s Fort Phil Kearny in 1986, John D. McDermott has researched the 1866-68 Bozeman Trail. Three forts on this route...
From Cochise to Geronimo
This book marks the final volume in Edwin R. Sweeney’s trilogy on the Chiricahua Apaches. He began with a biography of Cochise, whose death in 1874...
Cave Rock
This mother-and-son project documents the legal clash between Washoe Indians and Tahoe Basin climbers, many of whom the two know as friends. In...
War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army
On the Great Plains, warfare was virtually constant from 1850 to 1890. Yet the story of the Pawnee scouts who fought as cavalry for the U.S. Army...
The Killing of Crazy Horse
Inspired by interpreter William Garnett’s account that made the killing of Crazy Horse “seem so unnecessary,” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist...
Sitting Bull: Prisoner of War
No one can top Robert Utley’s biography of Sitting Bull, Lance and the Shield. Yet although the master devoted a chapter to the Hunkpapa chief’s...
Myth, Memory and Massacre
After 150 years of a fictional understanding of the 1860 Battle of Pease River (the battle did not even occur there), the falsifications of...
All of My People Were Killed
This Sharlot Hall Museum treasure shares the first-person narrative of a Yavapai orphan taken in by his Army captors after troops killed his family...
Plains Indians Regalia & Customs
This jam-packed volume gathers together the 18th- and 19th-century observations of the styles and mannerisms of Plains Indian people that are in...
Building One Fire: Art and World View in Cherokee Life
“I never met a man I didn’t like,” Cherokee humorist Will Rogers famously said, espousing the philosophy that all are sacred in the worldview of the...
Ghost Town Travelogues
In 1938, teenager Phil Varney moved with his folks from the flatlands of Illinois to the deserts of Arizona. He’d never seen mountains shouldering...