by Phil Spangenberger | Oct 1, 2005 | Features & Gunfights
Sportscaster Ronald Reagan signed onto a whole new game when the 24 year old joined the 14th Cavalry (stationed in Des Moines, Iowa), which coaxed the future president’s horsemanship skills. Reagan’s cavalry days have inspired the finest display of its kind that this...
by Jana Bommersbach | Jun 1, 2005 | True Westerners
“The stories of Geronimo, Crazy Horse, and Custer pale beside the tale of another warrior—one who fought relentlessly, successfully and against all odds almost continuously for forty years…. But you’ve probably never heard of her.” That’s how Arizona author and...
by Mary-Lane Kamberg | Jun 1, 2005 | Features & Gunfights
In the midst of a prisoner exchange negotiation, two men enter William Clarke Quantrill’s camp, four miles northeast of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, about three miles east of Little Blue River, on August 28, 1862. They have come to deliver a recent issue of the Missouri...
by Johnny D. Boggs | May 1, 2005 | Travel & Preservation
Crockett … Travis … Houston … Bowie. … The Texas Independence Trail is about icons, so it’s only fitting that the first tombstone I notice at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin belongs to one of the Lone Star State’s biggest legends. Sure, I’m...
by Dennis Goodwin | Apr 1, 2004 | Features & Gunfights
“Brethren and sisters, what I have said, I know to be true.” Levi Savage was a lone voice that hot August morning in 1856 as he graphically warned 500 of his fellow Latter-day Saints about the hazards of continuing their journey to the Mormon mecca of Salt Lake...