by Meghan Saar | Jul 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Johnny D. Boggs | Jul 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Kim Allen Scott | Jul 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by twadmin | Jul 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
Wyatt Earp’s 1871 arrest for horse theft in the Indian Territory, which first came to light in Ed Bartholomew’s book, Wyatt Earp, 1848 to 1880: The Untold Story, has long troubled some of Earp’s defenders. At the time of the book’s publication in 1963, the image of...
by Shelly Dudley | Jun 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Wives and families accompanying their military husbands during wartime is nothing new in American history. Martha Washington spent winter encampment with her general husband during the American Revolution. The wives of frontier U.S. Army servicemen during the last...