Traveling the Chisholm Trail
Texas. Just the name alone evokes imagery of a wild and untamed bygone era when anything was possible. I am biased when I speak on the subject of Texas. It is my home and I am a proud Texan, through and through. There is nothing I love more than driving the dusty...
Leader of Destiny: Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull strived to retain Lakota lifestyle and lands. He belonged to the Hunkpapa tribe of the Lakota people, also known as the Sioux. His name, Tatanka Iyotake, Sitting Bull, more fully means a stubborn male bison that will sit on his haunches and fight to the...
A Long Shot
June 27, 1874 The Comanches and their Kiowa and Southern Cheyenne allies are hell bent on driving buffalo hunters off their land. The hunters have already decimated the herds on the Northern Plains. Now these hunters have set up shop near Adobe Walls, deep in Comanche...
The Brotherhood of Empirical Failure
In 1876, Custer’s Seventh Calvary was defeated by the Lakota and Cheyenne tribes at the Little Big Horn; three years later, two British columns were virtually annihilated at Isandlwana, South Africa. Ever since, historians on several continents have noted the uncanny...
True West January/February 2025
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