Wednesday, May 21, 2014

XIT Ranch: The Largest Fenced Ranch in the 1880s

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Cowboys at Escarbada Bunkhouse at the XIT Ranch, 1891.  Image  from the Portal to Texas History. Moving closer to the end of the alp...
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Sunday, April 6, 2014

William N. Byers and the Rocky Mountain News

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William N. Byers circa 1903. Photographer unknown, public domain. I still remember reading the Rocky Mountain News as a child. ...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Christmas in the Old West

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Christmas dinner for a family, from a series of photos documenting Gen. John J. Pershing's 1916 Punitive Expedition into Mexico. ...
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Friday, November 22, 2013

Massacre at Wounded Knee

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US Attorney General Eric Holder laying a wreath at the site of the Wounded Knee Memorial. Photo taken September 26, 2009. November ...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Wounded Knee Massacre: More on The Ghost Dance (Natdia)

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Ghost Dance Painting. Image courtesy of Legends of America. The importance of The Ghost Dance in the history of the Native American ...
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Monday, October 14, 2013

Wounded Knee: The Measuring Woman Attempts to Avert Disaster

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Alice Fletcher meets with Chief Joseph at the Nez Perce Lapwai Reservation in Idaho, 1889. The man on one knee is James Stewart, her int...
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Friday, October 4, 2013

Wounded Knee: Wovoka and the Ghost Dance

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Wovoka , (1856-1932), who was also known as Jack Wilson. Wovoka was the Northern Paiute religious leader who founded the Ghost Dance mov...
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