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Wild West July 3, 2004 Nancy M. Peterson |
Interpreter Philip Wells: Wounded at Wounded Knee The son of a white father and a half-blood mother, Wells nearly lost his nose in the tragic 1890 affair but still managed to be merciful. |
Wild West June 2006 Robert W. Larson |
Sioux Chief Gall: In the Shadow of Sitting Bull Soldiers gave the Hunkpapa leader his nickname because he was a dashing warrior who effectively teamed up with Sitting Bull in the 1870s. But after his surrender in 1881, Gall stood up for cooperation and peace at Standing Rock. |
Wild West July 3, 2004 J. Jay Myers |
Tecumseh, Red Cloud and Sitting Bull: Three Great Indian Leaders Diplomacy, courage and charisma were among the attributes of this trio of great Indian leaders. |
Wild West Robert Benjamin Smith |
Buffalo Bill's Skirmish At Warbonnet Creek Three weeks after the disaster at the Little Bighorn, Buffalo Bill claimed he had taken 'the first scalp for Custer!' And soon the famous scout was doing it all over again on the stage. |
Wild West L. Robert Pyle |
Cheyenne Chief Tall Bull Tall Bull led the Dog Soldiers in battle, but his death at Summit Springs ended Southern Cheyenne power. |
Wild West McCune & Hart |
The Fatal Fetterman Fight Called a massacre at the time, the December 1866 clash near Fort Phil Kearny was, in fact, a military triumph by the Plains Indians and the Army's greatest blunder in the West until the Battle of the Little Bighorn 10 years later. |
Wild West Robert Foster |
Buffalo Soldiers in Utah Territory At Fort Duchesne, black 9th Cavalry troops served alongside white infantrymen while dealing with the sometimes restless Ute Indians and the wild and woolly Duchesne Strip. |
Wild West July 3, 2004 Jeff Broome |
Death at Summit Springs: Susanna Alderdice and the Cheyennes In May 1869, Tall Bull's Cheyenne Dog Soldiers carried out a series of brutal raids in north-central Kansas, and though the white soldiers later caught up with them, vengeance could not make everything right. |
Wild West August 2005 Robert Nightengale |
Custer's Last Stand Still Stands Up Although George Custer may have made some mistakes at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, he had a solid plan that summer day in 1876 and might have defeated Sitting Bull and allies had two subordinate officers obeyed his orders. |
Wild West July 3, 2004 G. Sam Carr |
Sioux Chief's Ghost Dance Revival Two years after Wounded Knee, Chief Two Sticks was Ghost Dancing and more. |
Wild West February 2006 John D. McDermott |
Brule Sioux Spotted Tail's Pledge of Peace War and a terrible winter were fresh memories when the tearful Spotted Tail was allowed to bury his daughter at Fort Laramie. This helped convince the Brule Sioux leader to bury the hatchet forever. |
Wild West February 2006 John D. McDermott |
Brule Sioux Chief Spotted Tail Spotted Tail, chief of the Brules, showed much martial prowess in his younger days, only to became a highly respected peace chief. But he was not destined to die peacefully. |
Wild West July 3, 2004 Sierra Adare |
Fort Laramie: Gateway to the Far West The fort, which became a military post 150 years ago, protected and supplied emigrants headed to the West Coast and was the site of several historic peace conferences between the northern tribes and the U.S. government. |
Wild West J. Jay Myers |
The Notorious Fight At Sand Creek More often called a massacre than a battle, the attack by Colonel John M. Chivington's Colorado volunteers on Chief Black Kettle's village will forever be controversial. |
Wild West June 2007 John Koster |
Survivor Frank Finkel's Lasting Stand Although his claim to have been the only white survivor of Colonel Custer's immediate command at the Battle of the Little Bighorn has been largely rejected, a recent analysis of the evidence suggests that Frank Finkel told the truth. |
Wild West William A. Dobak |
Buffalo Soldiers: Sorting Fact from Fiction Known as buffalo soldiers, though they did not use that term themselves, the black servicemen who saw duty in the Wild West generally had the same burdens and privileges as their white counterparts. |
America's Civil War Donald Scott |
Camp William Penn's Black Soldiers in Blue Under the stern but sympathetic gaze of Lt. Col. Louis Wagner, some 11,000 African-American soldiers trained to fight for their freedom at Philadelphia's Camp William Penn. Three Medal of Honor recipients would pass through the camp's gates. |
Outside October 2002 Bill Vaughn |
The Snow on the Sweetgrass For newcomers -- meaning most of us -- they are merely picturesque. But for Native Americans, the sacred places of the Great Plains and Northern Rockies are alive with centuries of memory and meaning -- and something much, much bigger. |
Wild West Gregory F. Michno |
The Real Villains of Sand Creek Colonel John Chivington and Colorado Territorial Governor John Evans are usually portrayed as the men who brought on the 1864 "massacre." But, in this fresh perspective, the true scoundrels in the affair are a half-dozen others, with Major Edward Wynkoop at the top of the list. |
Civil War Times June 2007 Gordon Berg |
American Indian Sharpshooters at the Battle of the Crater In 1864, American Indian sharpshooters fought gallantly beside their black and white comrades in blue in the chaos of the Crater. |
American History April 2004 Glenn W. LaFantasie |
King Philip's War: Indian Chieftain's War Against the New England Colonies More than 330 years ago, a great Indian chieftain known as King Philip led a strong native American confederation in a bloody war to obliterate the New England colonies, nearly succeeding in dramatically altering the course of American history. |
Wild West December 2006 |
Letters from Readers Plenty of Gall... & Some Little Crow... Untimely Mistake... |
Wild West John F. Murphy, Jr. |
Long March of Lewis and Clark For 28 arduous and danger-filled months, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the longest armed reconnaissance in military history. |
Smithsonian May 2006 Owen Edwards |
War and Remembrance An Indian artist's traditional tribute honors Native American soldiers who served in Vietnam. |
Salon.com November 27, 2002 James Hagengruber |
Sitting Bull uber alles Some Germans are fascinated American Indian culture. |
National Defense May 2006 Grace Jean |
Soldiers Sharpen Humanitarian, Diplomatic Skills In preparation for the launch of a humanitarian aid mission at a refugee camp in Iraq, soldiers are being trained to cope with the unpredictable hurdles that come with interacting with people from a different culture. |
Wild West October 2006 |
Letters from Readers Pony Express -- Ride, Cody, Ride... Inkpaduta Info... Red-Haired Cynth... |
Outside July 2003 Bill Vaughn |
Raising North Dakota Horrible winters. A dwindling, aging population. Abandoned farms reverting to prairie grass. Perfect, says our writer. |
Civil War Times December 2003 Eric Ethier |
Who Was the Common Soldier of the Civil War? Here's what the statistics tell us. |
Outside November 2006 Steven Rinella |
Come Herd or High Water When he landed a rare permit to hunt bison deep in the Alaskan wilderness, our fearless forager thought he'd be living out a childhood dream. Wild buffalo, hungry grizzlies, nearly fatal hypothermia -- what more could a grown man ask for? |