by Kevin Hogge and Cindy Smith | Nov 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
Contention City played a major role in the growth of southern Arizona at a time when the territory needed it most. An accidental stumble started it all. In 1879, prospectors Ed Williams and Jack Friday were searching for their missing mules. The chains their mules had...
by Johnny D. Boggs | Nov 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Scout’s Rest Ranch, known today as Buffalo Bill State Historical Park in North Platte, Nebraska, might seem like an odd place to start a road trip about Lakota leader Red Cloud. But think back… One of the iconic photographs of Buffalo Bill Cody has him posing with Red...
by Sherry Monahan | Nov 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Port of Jefferson’s first steamboat captain opened Texas’s second oldest, continuously operating hotel, the Excelsior. William Perry, a Massachusetts native, settled in Jefferson, Texas, in 1842. After he guided the first steamboat, the Llama, into the city...
by Lynda A. Sanchez | Nov 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
Imagine Oklahoma Territory’s Fort Sill in 1895, almost 10 years after the surrender of Geronimo. Imagine Mexico’s Sierra Madre, where hit-and-run attacks by Apaches on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border continued to create chaos. Imagine what we would call today a...
by Phil Spangenberger | Nov 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
When Western traveler George Rutledge Gibson wrote how he and his companions prepared for a possible Indian attack in May 1848, he recalled that “flints were screwed in, pans primed and all things made ready for a fight.” Frontiersmen took such knowledge for...