Django Unchained

Django Unchained

A decade since the highest-grossing Western was released, the film remains controversial.     There are many disconcerting issues that a young historian of the American frontier must confront as the 10-year anniversary of the release of Django Unchained...
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...