The War on Wolves
Throughout human history, the wolf has always been one of Nature’s most magnificent and maligned creatures, both revered and reviled.
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Notes From The Frontier
Notes from the Frontier author's new novel coming soon!
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Special thanks to Oscar-Winning Dances with Wolves co-composer Peter Buffett for use of his spectacular music from 500 Nations.
Take a wild ride into America’s past.
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- 7 min
The True Story of Pocahontas
Few legends in American history embody the power and poignancy that Pocahontas does.
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Parting of the Ways
By far the most traveled frontier route West was a common trail shared by Oregon-bound and California-bound settlers.
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Frontier Quilts
In frontier America, quilts were a way for women to gain immortality.
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"Every Dead Buffalo is an Indian Gone"
Once upon a time, before European whites ever set foot on the North American continent, 75-100 million buffalo roamed the land.
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The Saga of Jackson Sundown
It turns out that Angela Swedberg is one of the leading Tribally Certified Indian Artisans in the country.
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The Origin of Appaloosas
The origin of Appaloosas is....well....spotty. In fact, the history—and the DNA—of Appaloosas goes back millennia and across oceans.
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In Honor of Chief Joseph
Chief Joseph’s saga is an “unparalleled story in the annals of the Indian's resistance to the greed of the whites.
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Vanishing Americans
Edward Curtis was a famous American photographer and ethnologist who focused his work on the tribes of the American frontier.
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1800s Funeral Technology
The nature of battle casualties and the job of collecting the wounded and the dead was overwhelming.
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In Praise of Oxen
If patience is a virtue, oxen are saints.
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Stagecoach Mary
The legend was a towering, six-foot-plus black woman named “Stagecoach Mary.” And she could drink, smoke, cuss, fistfight and shoot.
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Dances with Wolves - Part 2
Dances with Wolves was not only revolutionary for the western genre, it was a watershed for Native American actors and actresses.
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Dances with Wolves - Part 1
This week marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of shooting for Dances with Wolves, the magnificent 1990 award winning film.
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What Pioneers Packed to Go West
Packing could mean the difference between life and death on the trail and varied wildly depending upon sensibilities.
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Wild Bill Hickok
If ever there was an icon that embodied the Wild West, it was Wild Bill Hickok. He lived violently and died violently.
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Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane, born Martha Jane Canary, is an enigma in Western legend. Much has been written about her, much of it fictional.
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Outhouses
The little wooden outhouse has been an architectural fixture of America since the 1700s, when it began to replace chamber pots.
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Kate Shelley
In 1881, a 17-year-old Irish immigrant girl named Kate Shelley risked her own life to save the lives of 200 souls on a midnight train.
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Death on the Trail
The Oregon Trail has been called a 2,000-mile-long graveyard.
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