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Following Custer’s Guidon

Following Custer’s Guidon

by | Sep 1, 2004 | Travel & Preservation

Born in 1839 in New Rumley, Ohio, George Armstrong (or Autie, as his sister called him) Custer attended Alfred Stubbins Young Men’s Academy. He graduated in 1855, taught at Beech Point School in Ohio and in 1857 enrolled in West Point, where he was graduated last in...
Judging the Peace

Judging the Peace

by | Aug 1, 2004 | Features & Gunfights

Mexican raiders swam across the Rio Grande, showing off their freshly-stolen beeves, taunting Capt. Leander McNelly and his Special Force of Texas Rangers to cross the river and invade Mexico. The rustlers knew the Neutrality Act of 1818 forbade American military...
Legendary Rancher

Legendary Rancher

by | Jul 1, 2004 | Features & Gunfights

Nobody was going to sneak up on ol’ Tap Duncan on the Diamond Bar Ranch, tucked away as it was in a remote corner of Arizona’s Mohave County. Anybody wanting to find him had to negotiate the narrow confines of Grapevine Canyon and ride up to his front door. Anybody...
On the Trail of Wild Bill Hickok

On the Trail of Wild Bill Hickok

by | Jul 1, 2004 | Travel & Preservation

May 27, 1837: A son, James Butler, the fifth child was born to William Alonzo and Polly Butler Hickok of Homer (later Troy Grove), Illinois. 1856: Nineteen-year-old James Butler Hickok left the family home with brother Lorenzo, heading for Kansas Territory to farm;...