Not for the Purists
When it comes to author Thom Hatch’s latest effort, The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (New American Library, $26.95), what might seem to be the book’s weaknesses could prove, in the final analysis, to be the book’s...
Picture-Perfect Custer
There must be five hundred pictures of Custer’s Last Stand, and not two dozen of the Washita,” wrote renowned art historian Brian Dippie in 2009. One of those two dozen sold as the top George Armstrong Custer lot at Heritage Auctions on December 11-12, 2012, an...
The Gentleman Vigilante
Ever heard of Elias Whitcomb? The Old West is full of brave Indian fighters who settled our country, yet never made dime novels or campfire songs. Whitcomb was one who escaped notoriety despite his outrageous exploits and tight links with notorious killers enshrined...Was George Custer’s body mutilated after the Little Big Horn battle?
Was George Custer’s body mutilated after the Little Big Horn battle? Paul Hughes Vacaville, California Historians still struggle to corroborate or disprove this claim. Some 50 years after the fight, two Cheyenne women asserted they had pierced George Custer’s ears...
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