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VIGILANTES
One of the aspects of the Old West that has always intrigued me was the vigilantes. I can understand the frustration with how many times crime was running rampant, with towns popping up ahead of the town’s infrastructure…which included the law. And even in more developed towns, the law was handicapped because of the number […]
FORT PHIL KEARNY
On this date back in 1866 construction on Fort Phil Kearny, one of the most important army outposts of the Old West began. It was one of a series of forts that were to guard the Bozeman Trail. Three years earlier John Bozeman had blazed a trail that headed northwest to the gold fields of […]
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
It was on this date back in 1872 that President Grant signed the bill creating Yellowstone National Park. John Colter, the famous mountain man, was the first Anglo to travel through the area. In 1807, he returned with fantastic stories of steaming geysers and bubbling cauldrons. People accused the mountain man of telling tall tales […]
