A Merry Christmas at Ft. Yuma

A Merry Christmas at Ft. Yuma

The workhorse among the Army’s Corps of Topographical Engineers surveying the southern border of the New Mexico Territory during the 1850’s was Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple. He was the steady and sure wheelhorse of J. R. Bartlett’s and Major William Emory’s boundary...
Mr. Authenticity

Mr. Authenticity

  Many fans of Westerns, especially the True West maniacs, are guilty of picking them apart for the anachronisms all too often found in such films. I recall having a conversation about the 1969 flick Little Big Man, with a friend who raved on about it, and I...