Soiled Doves
Bring up the intriguing subject of prostitution history in the American West, and you are sure to liven up a conversation. The thought of someone paying for sex diverts from societal and cultural ideals about how and when sex should be employed. It also brings forth a...
Asher’s Legacy
Thrust into a war within America’s Civil War, seven-year-old Ambrose Asher carried with him a Cheyenne treasure. The oldest-known ledger book of Plains Indian drawings, it bid in for an astonishing $150,000 at Sotheby’s New York on May 22. The Cheyennes had killed...
On the Trail of Warring Parties
A few years ago, I was having dinner with a Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area representative, talking about—what else?—the Civil War in Kansas and Missouri. Freedom’s Frontier includes eastern Kansas and western Missouri counties that played a major part in...
The Most Contemptible Character I Ever Saw
During the summer of 1886 in the midst of the Geronimo campaign in southern Arizona, Capt. Gustavus Cheyney Doane wrote dozens of letters to his wife, Mary, attempting to soothe her concerns about his safety. Doane commanded Company A, 2nd U.S. Cavalry, which, in...
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