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Aunt Sally

Aunt Sally

by | Jul 1, 2001 | True Westerners

AUNT SALLY—FIRST WOMAN IN THE BLACK HILLS. That’s all it says on her simple, rough wood headboard that now hangs in the Adams Museum in Deadwood. A new marker was erected in 1934 at her grave in the old Vinegar Hill Cemetery, high on the wooded hill above the once...
Buffalo Bill’s First Scalp for Custer

Buffalo Bill’s First Scalp for Custer

by | Jul 1, 2001 | Inside History

Cody, Carr, Collins and Townsend could hardly contain themselves. On a hot afternoon at Fort Laramie, Buffalo Bill was his customary dashing and exuberant self, straight and slender and wearing a scarlet shirt as he paraded in front of John Collins’ post-traders...