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The Alamo - The Mission, The Fortress, The Shrine
The poster for John Wayne's The Alamo (1960) celebrates its history with the line, "The Mission That Became a Fortress…The Fortress That Became A Shrine…," which is a concise and accurate summary of the...
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Battles of the Texas Revolution - The Road to Independence
The Battle of Gonzales in October 1835 is recognized as the official beginning of the Texas Revolution, even though armed conflict between Texians and the Mexican government had already erupted...
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Eastman's Biography of Red Cloud
Eastman's biography of Red Cloud (l. 1822-1909) is the first narrative of his Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (1916), and it sets the tone for those that follow, including the pieces on Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse...
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The Wonderful Sack
The Wonderful Sack is a legend of the Cheyenne nation and one of the Wihio tales, featuring the trickster figure Wihio, similar to the Lakota Sioux character Iktomi (also known as Unktomi) of the famous Iktomi tales. Although...
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Early Media Coverage of the Sand Creek Massacre and Continuing Controversy
The earliest reports on the Sand Creek Massacre (29 November 1864) characterized it as a great battle in which the Third Colorado Cavalry under Colonel John Chivington defeated a...
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The Last Chief of the Comanches & the Fall of an Empire - Dustin Tahmahkera
Get to know the story of Quanah Parker, a Native American warrior and leader, and the last chief of the Comanche tribe. Late one night in 1871, a group of riders descended on...
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The Largest Destruction of Animals in Modern History | The American Buffalo | A Film by Ken Burns
Official website: https://to.pbs.org/buffalo | #AmericanBuffaloPBS The scale of destruction of wild animals in the American West during the 19th century is the...
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Sand Creek Massacre, 1864: Tragedy on the Big Sandy
Credit to Paul I. Wellman: Death on the Prairie, 1934 This video attempts to provide the context leading up to the massacre of the Cheyenne village in the winter of 1864. The settlers of Colorado...