Hell Paso
Everyone knew that John Wesley Hardin was one of the deadliest gunfighters in all the West. Which is why, late in the evening of August 19, 1895, John Selman shot him in the back of the head. And, as Hardin lay dying on the floor of the Acme Saloon in El Paso, Selman...
A Campaign from Hell
America was celebrating its centennial when word came of George Custer’s destruction by the Lakota Sioux at the Little Big Horn (Northern Cheyennes and Arapahos also fought troops in that battle). A devastated nation demanded punishment. Humiliated by the obliteration...
Surviving Captivity
In 1864, as the Civil War ground toward its bloody finish, the West was aflame in widespread Indian conflicts of unimaginable violence and scope. Unconcerned by the dangers of traveling in small groups, a party of Idaho-bound emigrants camped on Little Box...
Lincoln’s Western Past
At first, I think I’ve made a wrong turn somewhere, because this doesn’t feel like the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. It’s more like…Disneyland. Don’t get me wrong. Springfield, Illinois, Honest Abe’s home and final resting place, should brag about...
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