Bozeman’s Darkest Night
When the log battering ram crashed against the jailhouse door, the prisoners inside cowered against the far wall, screaming for help in a desperate hope that someone, somehow, would come and stop the mob. Their cries were in vain, for when the sun rose over Bozeman on...
Tunstall Ambushed
February 18, 1878 Late afternoon light tips the tops of the foothills leading down into New Mexico Territory’s Ruidoso Valley. The Tunstall party crests a divide and starts down a narrow gorge leading down to the Ruidoso River—unaware that they are being pursued. The...
Remington’s Kodak Moments
Frederic Remington was a shutterbug. It’s a simple fact. One of the greatest painters and sculptors of the American West was addicted to photography. That jaunty figure, sporting a white pith helmet as protection against the blazing Arizona sun in his painting...
Liberty, Not Death
Children soothed their thirst by scraping their fingernails on barrack windows to capture frost and warded off hunger by chewing on leather. After four days of starvation, their elders declared they would rather die seeking freedom than perish like this. Thus, on...
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