The Cheyenne’s Dog Soldiers, one of the most famous groups of Indigenous warriors in North America, fought until…

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When it comes to Old West towns, most people think of empty dirt streets filled with tumbleweeds and…

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The Wild West is a more nebulous term than you may think, so when the era ended is…

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In 1877 Fort Griffin, Texas was at the height of its boom. The military post had been an…

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Contrary to popular mythology, no single gun won the West, but these ten firearms certainly carved a niche…

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Native Americans may have invented scalping, but European contact accelerated it.

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Johnny Ringo was a charismatic, B-list desperado with an A-list reputation in American West history. Best known as…

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John Wesley Hardin was one of the Old West’s most notorious killers: a ruthless outlaw who once killed…

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Wells Fargo’s express service helped to define and develop the Old West through stagecoaches and shotguns. The discovery…

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The most famous of the Comanches was Quanah Parker, who led them in their last days as an independent power and into life on reservations.

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