The Severed Heads Campaign
Mickey Free rode into Camp Apache on April 27, 1874, with the bloody severed head of the renegade warrior Pedro hanging from his saddle. The delivery of the head by the enigmatic scout to Capt. George Randall marked the beginning of the end of one of the most...
“It’s My Obsession”
Legendary rock musician Phil Collins doesn’t exactly believe in psychics, but he has to admit, he feels eerie about this: A clairvoyant once told him he was the reincarnation of John W. Smith—an Alamo courier who went on to become the first mayor of San Antonio. She...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2015
Top 10 True Western Towns – What makes a True Western Town? Well, there’s history, of course. Whether it’s about lawmen and gunfighters, ranchers and sodbusters, or railroads and boomtowns, all True Western Towns have a story to tell. But there’s more to it than...
Weapons of the Indian Wars
During the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877, Touch The Clouds took his band of Minneconjou Teton followers to the Spotted Tail Agency in northwestern Nebraska. When they arrived on April 14, 1877, the chief rode forward and said, “I lay down this gun, as a token of...
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