Old West

<p><span class="deck"> The Middle West has put its stamp on many artists’ work</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The Nez Percés led the Army a bitter 1,300-mile chase; when they surrendered, one of the last free Indian nations vanished into history.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The steamship clerk of Pig’s Eye, Minnesota, built a railroad empire from the Great Lakes to Puget Sound</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Spare, frail, and plagued by old wounds, Ranald Mackenzie was still “the finest Indian-fighting cavalryman of them all”</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Legend says the frontier was “hell on women,” but the ladies claim they had the time of their lives</span> </span></p>

<p>In this never-never land, the superhero is the gun slinger, the man who can draw fastest and shoot straightest.</p>

<p><span class="deck">Underschooled and ill-equipped, the men who attended the pioneers practiced a rugged brand of medicine—but they made some major advances all the same</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> “Then how come they’re digging a grave behind the old corral, Luke?”</span> </p>

<p>In painting the romance of the American cowboy, Remington knew instinctively what would grip his audience and held it fast.</p>

<p>For hoboes, the West was the land of milk and honey, of adventure, scenery, and easy living. A “land stowaway” hopped the first transcontinental train, and for six more decades they rode the rails</p>

<p>Western miners, the hard-rock stiffs, were as tough and horny-handed a breed of men as any in the world.</p>

<p>Organizers held an old-fashioned cattle drive to commemorate the cowboy's role in winning the West, but, as they say, nostalgia ain't what it used to be.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The Colonial Status—Past and Present—of the Great American West</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Images of the Maritime West</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Piskiou,Vaches Sauvages, Buffler, Prairie Beeves—</span> </p>

<p><span style="background:white">To Owen Wister, the unlikely inventor of the cowboy legend, the trail rider was a survivor from the Middle Ages – “the last cavalier,” savior of the Anglo-Saxon race</span><span class="deck"> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Photographic Record of a Western Success Story</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">The Wyoming photographer Joseph Stimson proudly portrayed his region in the years when it was emerging from it rude frontier beginnings.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Lone Star state as it once was, proud, isolated, independent, the undiluted essence of America forever inventing itself out of the hardscrabble reality of the frontier</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> From Fort Ticonderoga to the Plaza Hotel, from Appomattox Courthouse to Bugsy Siegel’s weird rose garden in Las Vegas, the present-day scene is enriched by knowledge of the American past</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">THE MOVIES, THE WARS, AND THE TEAPOT DOME: A journey of a hundred miles on a Wyoming interstate turns up the true stories behind the powerful Western myths.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The legend of the most notorious of all outlaws belongs to the whole world now. But, to find the grinning teenager who gave rise to it, you must visit the New Mexico landscape where he lived his short life.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">From law officer to murderer to Hollywood consultant: the strange career of a man who became myth</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">There have never been many of them, and they haven’t always behaved well. But, for more than a century now, they’ve been one of the most famous law-enforcement outfits in the world.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The creator of the immensely popular new Western discusses what makes it truly new.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Although it ran only briefly 150 years ago, the Pony Express still defines our understanding of the Old West.</span></p>

<p>They created towns and became the center of Western life, enabling wheat, cattle, and minerals to flow out of the West.</p>

<p>A historian looks at the distinctive Midwestern identity of Wilder and her "Little House on the Prairie" books.</p>

<p>Interest in the outlaw has grown recently with the discovery of the first authenticated photographs of Henry McCarty, who died in 1881 at the age of 21 after a short, notorious life of gambling and gunfights.</p>

<p>With five major exploring expeditions west of the Mississippi, John C. Frémont redefined the country — with the help of his wife’s promotional skills.</p>

<p>William Cody established his reputation during a celebrated clash with Yellow Hair.</p>

<p>Her owner planned to take her from California to slave-holding Texas, so Biddy Mason went to court. After a dangerous drama, she won her freedom.</p>

<p>As a young man, Theodore Roosevelt struggled through a brutal winter on a cattle ranch in the Dakota Territory. The adventure launched a love affair with the western U.S.</p>