Western Americana: History of the American West

History of the American West, which includes the fur trade, mining, missionary, ranching, cattle, Indian, transportation and farming frontiers.

Monday, May 17, 2010

The Gunnison Massacre by Colonel Dick Kindsfater(Retired)

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The conventional account. During the early 1850's, numerous U.S. Government surveying expeditions were made into the Rocky Mountain We...
Sunday, April 11, 2010

Did a Japanese Midget Submarine Sink the USS Oklahoma on December 7, 1941? by Vernon Maddux

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Painting of attack on USS Oklahoma. On display Oklahoma State Capital, OKC. In the early pre-dawn hours of December 7, 1941, five Japanese T...
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Monday, January 25, 2010

Alfred Jacob Miller and the 1837 Fur Trade Rendezvous

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Alfred Jacob Miller was one of the first artists to document in his work the adventures of mountain men and Native Americans in the American...
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Sunday, January 3, 2010

The 1930s Dust Bowl and Katrina: Environmental Refugees

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“Environmental Refugees” as defined by Wall Street Journal columnist, Cynthia Crossen, are thousands, perhaps millions of people forced f...
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sue schrems, Ph.D.
Norman, Oklahoma, United States
I am a retired professor of history at Rose State College in Oklahoma City and an active historian who writes about Oklahoma and the American West.
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