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All through the sweltering night of Aug. 30, 1813, beneath a dim crescent moon, Red Eagle had quietly mobilized upward of 700 warriors in the tall grass around 'Fort' Mims-certainly [...]

They buried 'Old Man Kirker' in 1852 in northern California, not far from the low mountain pass that still bears his name. After the burial his Shawnee and Delaware Indian [...]

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna is back in the news 181 years after the Texas Revolution. A recent front page story in The Wall Street Journal and a biting, if [...]

Early in the spring of 1853 Kit Carson embarked on the strangest adventure of his storied career. With business partners Lucien Maxwell and John Hatcher he led a three-pronged trail [...]

Robert Olinger hated the Kid. 'Pecos Bob,' as he styled himself, blamed Billy for the deaths of friends Bob Beckwith (during the brutal July 1878 climax of New Mexico Territory's [...]

Helge Ingstad crossed into Sonora, Mexico, on November 4, 1937, in search of the long-rumored 'lost tribe' of Apaches of the Sierra Madre. The famed Norwegian explorer had already won [...]

The paddle-wheel steamer Far West, Captain Grant Marsh at the helm, reached Bismarck, Dakota Territory, late on the evening of July 5, 1876. Across the Missouri River, at Fort Abraham [...]

It began in 1718 as the Mission San Antonio de Valero, just east of the San Antonio River on the northernmost frontier of New Spain. It was another 40 years [...]

1 Jackson's Near Miss: Andrew Jackson almost missed the Creek War after engaging in a reckless gunfight with rivals Jesse and Thomas Hart Benton in Nashville's City Hotel on Sept. [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CUSTER WAS DEAD. The news spread quickly through Colonel Wesley Merritt's5th U.S. Cavalry camp at Sage Creek, Wyoming Territory, on July 7, 1876. It had taken a full […]

In 1883 stories circulated throughout Arizona Territory of a cloven-footed creature that moved silently through the desert. It was reddish in color and, according to the Kingman Mohave County Miner, [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the early 1830s, Christopher "Kit" Carson was a happy trapper enjoying the free and uncluttered West. as reflected n the 1935 oil-on-canvas Kit Carson With Mountain Men, […]

Elliott Arnold, author of the 1947 bestseller Blood Brother, which became the 1950 classic Western Broken Arrow, was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1912. In the lead-up to World [...]

1 President of Mexico 11 Times: Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna thought he was Mexico, a conceit that prompted multiple subsequent abuses of power. 2 War Criminal: At Goliad, over [...]

1 Kit Carson: The pathfinder for John 'The Pathfinder' Fremont, he also led the conquering Americans into California, carried dispatches across the country several times and proved equally invaluable in [...]

The article explores the legend of the Apache Kid, a warrior named Has-kay-bay-nay-ntayl who must have been born in the canyon of Aravaipa Creek in Arizona sometime in the early 1860s. It discusses how the Kid attached himself to police chief Clay Beauford at the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation and become a scout for U.S. soldiers. His conflict with fellow scouts, his life as an outlaw after avenging his father's death, the efforts to arrest him, and claims about his death are also noted.

ALREADY ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED MEN IN AMERICA IN 1835, THE RESTLESS TENNESSEAN SOUGHT ADVENTURE AND NEW OPPORTUNITY IN TEXAS ... WHERE THE ALAMO AND IMMORTALITY AWAITED HIM. Colonel […]

A biography of Sage Creek, Wyoming Territory Chief of Scouts William F. Cody known as Buffalo Bill is presented. He was born in Scott Country, Iowa on February 26, 1846 to Isaac and Mary Cody. His family moved to Kansas Territory in 1854 where his father became an advocate of the Free Soil cause. He joined the Kansas Jayhawkers during the outbreak of the Civil War to avenge the murder of his father. INSET: Motion Picture Man, Too.

This article focuses on the camel experiment of the U.S. Army in 1860. During the 1850s, the U.S. War Department has been planning to introduce camels into government service in an effort to explore and open up the Far Western Frontier. The camel experiment was an important part of a plan to consolidate the new territories won from Mexico and tie them to the Eastern states. Distance, landscape, native hostility and climate contributed to block the movement into these new lands, until the discovery of gold in California initiated migration of proportions.

The article recalls the abduction of citizen Ann White, her baby and nurse by the Jiracilla Apache Indians and the participation of frontiersman Kit Carson in their rescue in New Mexico. The Jiracillas ambushed the carriage of White's husband James and Pueblo Indians claimed that the Jiracillas have the mother and her daughter. Captain William Grier appealed to Carson to join them in the rescue. Grier stopped Carson from charging towards the Jiracillas which resulted to the death of Ann.

Provides information on the fall of the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas into the hands of Mexican soldiers on March 6, 1836. Civilian unrest in Texas; Defenders of the Alamo; Descriptions of the battle.

The article focuses on frontiersman David Crockett who was portrayed by actors Fess Parker in the television show "Disneyland" and John Wayne in the film "The Alamo."

The article offers information on the depiction of U.S. Army scout and range detective Tom Horn in film and television which include the films "Mr. Horn," "Tom Horn," and "Bad Men of Tombstone."

Focuses on various motion pictures made about the 1936 battle in Alamo, Texas. "The Alamo"; "The Martyrs of the Alamo"; "Man of Conquest"; "The Last Command."

The article reviews several films about Geronimo, including "Geronimo: An American Legend," starring Wes Studi and Jason Patric, directed by Walter Hill, "Geronimo," starring Joseph Runningfox, and "The Battle at Apache Pass," starring Jeff Chandler and Jay Silverheels.

The article lists some films about the friendship of Wild West lawman Wyatt Earp and gunfighter Doc Holliday including "Frontier Marshall," directed by Allan Dwan, "Hour of the Gun," directed by John Sturges, and "Wyatt Earp," directed by Lawrence Kasdan.