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, June 14, 2010

Yuma Territorial Prison 1875 - 1909 by Bob Foster

Old time western dime novels as well as modern popular western novels and movies nearly always depict the plight of prisoners in the Arizona...

Monday, May 17, 2010

The Gunnison Massacre by Colonel Dick Kindsfater(Retired)

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

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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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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