SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2015 Custer Luck Runs Out: Or, What Really Did Happen At the Little Bighorn? June 25, 1876. The Battle of the Little Bighorn. Much has been written about this iconic battle in American history. And I'm sure there's much more to follow.That battle...

Anybody reading this blog is certainly familiar with the events of George Armstong Custer's defeat at the Little Bighorn Battle on June 25, 1876. Well, at any rate, you're each familiar with the version you've come to believe from all the versions you've heard over...

General Edward Canby was certainly not the most well known Civil War or Indian Wars General, but his quiet accomplishments were more interesting than many of his more notorious colleagues. He cut his teeth fighting Navajoes and Apaches in the 1850's and 1860's with...

If there is a more tragic figure in the 19th Century West than the great Cheyenne Peace Chief Black Kettle, I have yet to find him. In my earlier blogs, I related how John Chivington and the Colorado Volunteers massacred the Peace Chief's Sand Creek village in...

THE AMAZING STORY OF FORT WICKED Where were we? Oh, yes. November 29, 1864. The massacre of Black Kettle's peaceful village at Sand Creek. The aftermath? Well, it will come as no surprise that the Colorado settlers and ranchers paid a very high price for Chivington's...

When Western History Turns Out, In Fact, Finally To Be WESTERN FICTION Those of us who write (or, at times, TRY) to write engaging western fiction and, in particular, western historical fiction, are at times amused or appalled when facts turn out to be fiction. This...

link: http://ow.ly/FYbSO STORYTELLER’S 7: STEVEN W. KOHLHAGEN, CON ARTISTS OF THE FRONTIER Written by Tom Rizzo on December 16th, 2014 under "Best Western of 2014", Steven W. Kohlhagen, StoryTeller's 7, Tiger Found, Where They Bury You. Comments 2 Someone once advised...

Flash back 151 years to February 1863. At that time Kit Carson was a bona fide American hero. It’s right there in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick: frontiersman, mountain man, Indian fighter. He was also a hero of the Mexican-American War, “Father Kit” to his Ute and...

SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2015 Custer Luck Runs Out: Or, What Really Did Happen At the Little Bighorn? June 25, 1876. The Battle of the Little Bighorn. Much has been written about this iconic battle in American history. And I'm sure there's much more to follow.That battle...

Anybody reading this blog is certainly familiar with the events of George Armstong Custer's defeat at the Little Bighorn Battle on June 25, 1876. Well, at any rate, you're each familiar with the version you've come to believe from all the versions you've heard over...

General Edward Canby was certainly not the most well known Civil War or Indian Wars General, but his quiet accomplishments were more interesting than many of his more notorious colleagues. He cut his teeth fighting Navajoes and Apaches in the 1850's and 1860's with...

If there is a more tragic figure in the 19th Century West than the great Cheyenne Peace Chief Black Kettle, I have yet to find him. In my earlier blogs, I related how John Chivington and the Colorado Volunteers massacred the Peace Chief's Sand Creek village in...

THE AMAZING STORY OF FORT WICKED Where were we? Oh, yes. November 29, 1864. The massacre of Black Kettle's peaceful village at Sand Creek. The aftermath? Well, it will come as no surprise that the Colorado settlers and ranchers paid a very high price for Chivington's...

When Western History Turns Out, In Fact, Finally To Be WESTERN FICTION Those of us who write (or, at times, TRY) to write engaging western fiction and, in particular, western historical fiction, are at times amused or appalled when facts turn out to be fiction. This...

link: http://ow.ly/FYbSO STORYTELLER’S 7: STEVEN W. KOHLHAGEN, CON ARTISTS OF THE FRONTIER Written by Tom Rizzo on December 16th, 2014 under "Best Western of 2014", Steven W. Kohlhagen, StoryTeller's 7, Tiger Found, Where They Bury You. Comments 2 Someone once advised...

Flash back 151 years to February 1863. At that time Kit Carson was a bona fide American hero. It’s right there in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick: frontiersman, mountain man, Indian fighter. He was also a hero of the Mexican-American War, “Father Kit” to his Ute and...