What did Indians use for soap, if anything? Or, was it not part of their culture? Usually the natives used plants to provide soap. For example, many...
Yucca Roots for Shampoo
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Arizona’s Yavapai-Apache War
A tour of the conflict’s historic sites is a poignant reminder of how unmerciful war was meted out against the state’s Native people. ...
A Ghostly Battle
An Apache shaman caused a major battle in Arizona. It was a shaman, leading the Ghost Dance, that led to the Battle of Cibecue Creek in Arizona....
Frontier Privies and Cowboy Cooks
Marshall Trimble is Arizona’s official historian and vice president of the Wild West History Association. His latest book is Arizona Oddities: Land...
Bouncing Back After a Year of Online Displays, Curators Eagerly Await Visitors
Bouncing Back After a Year of Online Displays, Curators Eagerly Await Visitors. After more than a year of COVID-19 restrictions, Western art museums...
Edward S. Curtis and the Hollywood Headhunters
The famed photographer's leap into silent films was anything but successful. While Edward S. Curtis’s photographs, and especially his 20...
Spark on the Prairie
Hit the road across Oklahoma and Texas to discover the history behind the Warren Wagon Train Raid and the Kiowa Indian Trial of 1871. It...
Have Camera, Will Travel
The Fearless Mirror Makers of the Arizona Territory Arizona and the Southwest were virtually unknown in the middle of the 19th century. A few...
The Last Frontier
Edward Curtis's Final Adventure What we know: He was 59. He had a bad hip after a whale upended his boat while he was making a film. He would travel...
Shadow Catcher
The Man who Saved 100 Nations Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) was a 19th-century Western pioneer and entrepreneur, known for his photography,...
Arrows: Pointed Death
The Indians’ ammunition grew on trees. An arrow, the deadly projectile propelled from a bow, could arguably be called the Indians’ “bullet.”...
Edward S. Curtis Redeemed
An underdog gets his due. All my life I have heard criticism of Edward Sheriff Curtis. He faked his photos, he didn’t do this, he had no business...