Regular viewers of PBS readily recognize Wes Cowan from Antiques Road Show and History Detectives. Back in the late 1970…
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What History Has Taught Me: Howard Terpning
As a kid I enjoyed building model airplanes. The best art training I ever got was being Haddon Sundbloom’s apprentice fo…
The Diné Return to the Four Corners One hundred fifty years later, follow the Navajo people’s poignant route home from New Mexico to Arizona.
Fort Sumner, New Mexico, has never been an easy place to live. Winters can be brutal. Summers are often blistering. The …
Seminole Scouts These brave men overcame slavery, prejudice and exile to return and serve honorably during the U.S. Army’s Indian Wars in the American Southwest.
These black scouts were descendants of runaways fleeing enslavement by whites. They sought refuge in Florida in the lat…
Battle of Rosebud Crook vs. Crazy Horse & Sitting Bull
General Crook is leading the Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition, which consists of some 990 cavalry and mule-mounted in…
Powell and the People of the Plateau A treasure trove of rediscovered images shines a light on a forgotten relationship of trust between the famed explorer and the Paiutes.
John Wesley Powell’s first expedition down the Green and Colorado rivers through the Grand Canyon in 1869, made him a na…
Standing Bear’s Trials to Indian Rights The fateful trail of the Ponca chief and his tribe from Nebraska to Oklahoma is as tragic as it is hopeful.
Indian removal doesn’t get the coverage of Indian conflict. To wit, Google searches on “Ponca” netted 5.2 million hits, …
The Comanche and his Horse The acquisition of the horse in the 1600s brought immediate and sweeping changes to the Plains Indians.
The acquisition of the horse in the 1600s brought immediate and sweeping changes to the Plains Indians. For the first ti…
The Martyrdom of Mangas Coloradas The great Apache leader was murdered in an attempt to end a war.
Mangas Coloradas was a great Apache chief, and he felt betrayed by the U.S. Settlers and miners had been taking over Ap…
The Final Nail in the Apache Kid’s Coffin Evidence points to demise of renegade wanted on both sides of the border.
Everyone in the posse took notice of a pair of binoculars taken from the Apache’s body. The Apache Kid always carried th…