The West

The West

Never in the history of the world has there been a place like the American West. The pristine uncharted land, its natural beauty, blessed with veritable mountains of gold, silver, and copper. It was as if the Almighty had decreed this land as a place to create a...
Kit Carson: Larger-Than-Life American Hero

Kit Carson: Larger-Than-Life American Hero

At the age of sixteen, Carson ran away from his job as an apprentice at a saddlery in Missouri and joined a party of traders heading down the Santa Fe Trail. By 1831, under the tutelage of the famed mountain man, Ewing Young, Carson was a first-class free trapper with...
Miles City, Montana

Miles City, Montana

  Miles City was primed for the Fourth of July. The fledgling town in eastern Montana Territory celebrated with music from Fort Keogh’s Fifth Infantry Band. The soldiers and townies enjoyed foot races, fireworks, speeches and a baseball game. The Miles City nine...