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Being part of a like-minded group of historians always leads to fun. A great organization for such gatherings is Westerners International. The Home Ranch is based out the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum on the campus of...
On Tuesday, July 4, Fort Laramie National Historic Site will be hosting its annual Old-Fashioned Fourth of July celebration. As in years past, the day will be packed with events
Medora, N.D. — The horses that wander Theodore Roosevelt National Park add splashes of animated color to the craggy buttes and grassy draws they call home. Bands of horses have long been a fixture of the park's South Unit. Officially, they serve as hoofed reminders of the open-range days when ranch horses helped cattle wranglers in the park's Little Missouri River badlands.
by John Finerty, edited by Paul L. Hedren Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Pp. xviii, 302+. Illus., map, append., notes, biblio., index. $34.95. ISBN: 0806165057 Reporting from the Saddle Irish immigrant John Finerty (1846-1908), landed in the United States in time to see some service in the Civil War. Postwar, he became a newspaper reporter, and in 1876 he covered the “Great Sioux War” for the Chicago Times. Accompanying Brig. Gen. George Crook’s main column, he was often involved in fire fights, though missing the Little Big Horn. In 1890 Finer...
True West Magazine In 1965, historian Robert M. Utley was in his second year as the National Park Service’s Chief Historian in Washington, D.C. Two years later he would publish Frontiersmen in Blue; the United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 (Macmillan) the follow-up to his first book, The Last Days of the Sioux Nation (Yale University, 1963). I first met Robert M. Utley in May 1977. He came to Bloomington to receive a Distinguished Alumni Service Award from Indiana University. I was a graduate student in history at IU at that time, and as soon as I learned that Utley was coming to...