Notes From The Frontier

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of shooting for Dances with Wolves, the magnificent 1990 award winning film.

George Armstrong Custer was a great dog lover and he had that to commend him. At one time late in his life he had between 40 and 80 dogs.

If ever there was an icon that embodied the Wild West, it was Wild Bill Hickok. He lived violently and died violently.

Calamity Jane, born Martha Jane Canary, is an enigma in Western legend. Much has been written about her, much of it fictional.

The Cheyenne called Custer "Attacker at Dawn" because of the Washita Massacre of 1868.

According to military statistics, Native Americans have served in the military more per capita than any other ethnic group.

On this day 142 years ago, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe faced the end of his tribe's civilization as a free people.