Notes From The Frontier

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 log cabin is an American icon. The rough-hewn, squat and humble house has long been lionized in our lore.

In the 1800s, Victorians were intimately acquainted with death. The Civil War, the bloodiest war in America's history, touched every family.

War shirts are not only beautifully crafted garments. They are spectacular works of art and symbolized the very essence of a warrior.

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.

For those who have found an arrowhead before, there are few thrills like it.

We all know the immortal names of Pocahontas and Sacagawea, native women who played important roles in the formation of our early nation.

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

For those of us who grew up with horses, who know the touch of horses, who love horses, we understand how much we owe to the horse and mule.

One Native man reached the very highest echelons of white power and, in 1865, penned the final surrender terms of the Civil War.

Throughout human history, the wolf has always been one of Nature’s most magnificent and maligned creatures, both revered and reviled.

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

In frontier America, quilts were a way for women to gain immortality.

The origin of Appaloosas is....well....spotty. In fact, the history—and the DNA—of Appaloosas goes back millennia and across oceans.

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

Edward Curtis was a famous American photographer and ethnologist who focused his work on the tribes of the American frontier.

The nature of battle casualties and the job of collecting the wounded and the dead was overwhelming.