Notes From The Frontier

Movies, television series, and books have extolled the legendary mountain man-turned-bear-tamer, Grizzly Adams.

Elizabeth Custer said of the great Hunkpapa Chief: "I never in my life dreamed there could be...so fine a specimen of warrior as Gall."

Female Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors fought at the Battle of the Little Bighorn-Custer's Last Stand-with distinction.

The name is legion. One of America’s greatest generals was named after him. An early American folk hero and two U.S. Presidents admired him.

Baby boomers grew up on the 1964 Daniel Boone tv series and the theme song. Some of you may even be able to sing along.

Today is the 138th anniversary of the gunfight at the OK corral on October 26, 1881. It was only 30 seconds of fury and flying lead.

Sacagawea is one of the most famous figures in American history. Nearly all American school children and adults recognize her name.

For a century, American Westerns have captured the blood-and-thunder of the Wild West, cowboys and Indians, outlaws and outlanders.

Frontier justice could be harsh, but few Wild West legends ended as badly for a bad guy as did the life of Big Nose George.

In the frontier of American music-making, Johnny Cash was a pioneer. As a musician, he was an icon.

The truth about the real Katie Elder is far more spectacular than any Hollywood fiction.

Johnny Appleseed was born John Chapman in 1774 in Massachusetts. His father was a Minuteman under George Washington.

Few legends in American history embody the power and poignancy that Pocahontas does.

It turns out that Angela Swedberg is one of the leading Tribally Certified Indian Artisans in the country.

Hundreds of riders on spotted Appaloosa horses, are saddling up to retrace the steps that Chief Joseph and his Nez Perce tribe took.

Chief Joseph’s saga is an “unparalleled story in the annals of the Indian's resistance to the greed of the whites.

The legend was a towering, six-foot-plus black woman named “Stagecoach Mary.” And she could drink, smoke, cuss, fistfight and shoot.

Most Americans know Uncle Sam as a tall, upstanding, elderly man, stern-faced, gritty, with a white beard and mutton chops.

No one was really prepared for the incredible success of Dances with Wolves. I know Kevin was blown away by the reception.

Dances with Wolves was not only revolutionary for the western genre, it was a watershed for Native American actors and actresses.