Preserving Polygamy became a women's campaign in the late 1800s—a point that will surprise many, who assumed women hated the plural-wife dictate of...
Preserving Polygamy
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Jana Bommersbach
Their Name Lives On
It started with one Pima basket, bought in the late 1890s somewhere around Phoenix, Arizona. Newcomers to the Southwest—health seekers—found the...
The First Woman to “Despise” Polygamy
The first woman to “despise” polygamy was Emma Smith—the first wife of Mormon founder Joseph Smith. Historians note she never believed it was a...
No Place Like Home
Tomasita Duran could not believe what was right before her eyes. On that day in 2004, the director of the housing authority saw something special...
An Outcast in Her Own Town
She had to be shocked from the top of her flowered hat to the hem of her velvet dress. This can’t be happening, she must have thought, not after all...
August, the Dirty Low-Down Month
That's how Wild Bill Hickok would have described it in 1876, if he'd lived to tell the tale. The month actually started out very profitably for the...
Crusade for a Chief
He resembled George Washington and helped save Gen. George Crook’s men at the Battle of the Rosebud during the Great Sioux War of 1876—this Shoshone...
The Most Significant July Event in Western History
It's probably a three-way tossup, depending on where your interests lie. It could be July 1, 1862 when President Lincoln set the route for the first...