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Cheyenne Valley – Early Integrated Community
Cheyenne Valley in Vernon County Wisconsin was an integrated community in the years after the Civil War and into the early 20th century. A community of mixed races who went to church and school together, socialized and worked together, and married each other.
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The Cowboys and Cowgirls Behind the Chutes: Cheyenne Frontier Days Volunteers
Rodeo cowboys offer life and limb for the excitement of the eight-second ride, but what about those behind the chutes sweating alongside the cowboys without the promise of a large purse?
cheyenne frontier days rodeo • cheyenne frontier days • cfd • prca • rodeo

The Cheyenne Club
The Cheyenne Club in Wyoming: Catered to the elite, high-ranking professionals, wealthy businessmen, prominent cattlemen, and state and federal legislators.
the cheyenne club • western domain of cattlemen and politicians • social club in the west • cheyenne in wyoming • masons in wyoming

Kansas Charley to Cheyenne
Kansas Charley watches the train carrying the bodies of the two boys he’d murdered pull out for Cheyenne, Wyoming. He then, strangely, buys a ticket for that same town.
kansas charley • charley miller • cheyenne • wyoming • colorado

Cheyenne Uprising
In July of 1868, the Cheyenne gathered at Fort Larned, Kansas to receive annuities as directed by the Medicine Lodge Treaty. A part of those annuities were guns and ammunition for hunting because some Cheyenne had gone on a raid Superintendent Murphy decided not to give these Indians the arms. He later relented but it was too late. An Indian War was already in progress.
cheyenne • war • larned • kansas • fort

Dining at the Cheyenne Club
Fine dining could be had at the Cheyenne Club at Cheyenne, Wyoming. Political and Socially elite dined there on meals prepared by a European chef.
cheyenne • wyoming • cheyenne club • europe • andrew carnegie

Kansas Charley Heads For Cheyenne
Kansas Charley hears of cowboy jobs to be had in Wyoming. Two young men leave St. Joseph, Missouri on a grand adventure west.
kansas charley • charley miller • cheyenne • wyoming • omaha

Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull was one of the most respected chiefs of the Sioux tribe. His band was the last to submit to life on a reservation. This article tells the story of how he got his name and his rise to leadership of his people.
sioux • sitting bull • cheyenne • crow • arapaho

Cattlemen Condemn Kansas Charley
Kansas Charley doesn’t stand a chance at his trial according to the prosecution and the opinion of the cattle barons who want to make an example of him.
kansas charley • charley miller • cheyenne • wyoming • cattle barons

George Armstrong Custer
On December 5, 1839, a baby boy was born in a farmhouse in New Rumley, Ohio. Little did his parents know that one day his name would be known around the world.
george armstrong custer • custers last stand • little bighorn • south dakota • mary alward

Phantom Wolf or Guardian Animal?
Before Wounded Knee, there was the massacre at Sand Creek. Four survivors were starving and cold. Then, the grey wolf with the strange eyes appeared and led them to safet
paranormal • phantom wolves • ghostly wolves • animal ghosts • wolf symbolism

Carlisle Indian School
In Cumberland County, Pennsylvania is a school that changed the lives of many American Indians. Instead of learning the Indian culture the U.S. stripped the culture.
tribes • treaties • geronimo • pratt • carlisle

Culture Clash
If war is what happens when diplomacy fails, southeastern Montana marks the site of one of America's greatest diplomatic failures.
little big horn • george armstrong custer • montana • sitting bull • sioux

Custer's Last Stand (Part 2)
In a day and a half of fighting, the 7th Cavalry lost three-fourths of its men. The Sioux, and their allies the Cheyenne, decimated the army, without much loss to themselves. Custer did not get his wish of becoming president of the United States.
little big horn • rosebud • yellowstone • bighorn • george armstrong custer

GHOST ON THE PLAINS
When winter comes on the Great American Plains the Indians gather around the fires in their lodges and tell stories. Here is a ghost story told by the Cheyenne about the Double-Faced Ghost.
plains • indians • cheyenne • ghost • monsters

Kansas Charley A Legal Victim
The governor declines a stay of execution for Kansas Charley. The Johnson County War is halted. The hired Texas killers are set free.
kansas charley • charley miller • johnson county war • cheyenne • wyoming

Kansas Charley Escapes
Kansas Charlie gets a reprieve, and takes part in a jail break.
kansas charley • charley miller • cheyenne • wyoming • cattle barons

Kansas Charley Gets a Dirty Deal
Emerson and Fishbaugh buy a gun and some whiskey, then attempt unsuccessfully to get rid of Kansas Charley. Charley shares his food with Emerson and Fishbaugh.
kansas charley • charley miller • emerson and fishbaugh • cheyenne • wyoming

Kansas Charley Goes on Trial
Kansas Charley goes on trial with a defense attorney with no prior murder case experience. The prosecution attorney is a slick character backed by the cattle barons.
kansas charley • charley miller • cheyenne • wyoming • cattle barons

Kansas Charley is Arrested
Kansas Charley becomes remorse over the double murder he committed. He turns himself over to the authorities.
kansas charley • charley miller • cheyenne • wyoming • boy murderer

Kansas Charley Moves On and On
Kansas Charley goes to Kansas to live with a family not far from where his brother lives. He steals some clothes and runs away.
kansas charley • charley miller • orphans • kansas • union pacific

Kansas Charley Turns Seventeen
While in jail, Kansas Charley turns seventeen. By law he is now considered a man. For the second time, Charley escapes from jail.
kansas charley • laramie • cheyenne • wyoming • cattle barons

Kansas Charlie's Deadly Obsession
Kansas Charley in Rochester, New York is obsessed with clothes. He believes a friend of his father has some money for him.
kansas charley • charley miller • cheyenne • wyoming • rochester

Kansas Charlie’s Day of Execution
Kansas Charley is executed. He is given a new suit of clothes to wear. Now he can die in style.
kansas charley • charley miller • cheyenne • wyoming • cattle barons

Who Was Kansas Charley?
Kansas Charley's parents were German immigrants. When Charley was five his mother died. His father, while bartending, was quickly becoming a drunk.
kansas charley • charley miller • new york city • german immigrants • cheyenne

Kansas Charley
Orphaned Charley Miller, calling himself Kansas Charley, murders two boys in a boxcar in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
kansas charley • charley miller • the saga of a boy murderer • cheyenne in wyoming • new york orphanages in the 1800s

Chasing Butterflies
My dog Meeko is a source of delight to me and my family. One of the funniest things on earth, is to watch Meeko chasing butterflies.
canada for kids • canada • dogs • butterflies • family fun

Best Fireworks in Montana, Wyoming
Visit Big Sky Country this Independence Day to celebrate freedom, or visit Wyoming's Old West, to discover rodeos, parades, costume contests and fireworks displays.
montana 4th of july • best fireworks wyoming • old west country • chuckwagon days • 4th of july events wyoming

Kansas Charley Becomes the Victim
In St. Joseph, Missouri two young men are beginning a westward journey. There is a deadly meeting between them and Kansas Charley.
murder on the union pacific • waldo emerson • ross fishbaugh • gentlemen of fashion riding for free • kansas charley

Treachery and Betrayal
Treachery and Betrayal at Jolly Days is the page turning sequel to The Onts.
review • dripping • fang • children • books

An Open Letter Dated December 31, 1821
In 1818 G. A. Plains (Great American Plains) received a letter from his friend B. E. Settlements (Back East Settlements). G. A. Plains replies with the latest new of the happenings on the Great American Plains in a letter dated 1821.
great • american • plains • east • settlements

Bents Fort, Colorado, part 1
Bent’s Fort, established in 1833, by William Bent was located on the north side of the Arkansas River in present-day Colorado along the Santa Fe Trail. This branch of the Trail crossed the river near where present-day La Junta, Colorado is located.
bent’s • fort • william • carson • charles

Custer's Last Stand (Part 1)
There were many reasons for Custer's defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Some are outlined in this article. One thing is clear: his forces were far outnumbered by the Sioux by a factor of about ten to one.
little big horn • rosebud • yellowstone • far west • terry

Early Spring on the High Plateau: Sand Lilies and Fringed Gromwell
...it wasn't Pasqueflower that beckoned me out into the moody Colorado weather. It was Sand Lilies. Lilies can be unusual and lovely, and I had never seen Sand Lilies, so...
early spring on the high plateau: sand lilies and • gregg m. pasterick • wildflowers of norht america • botany • ecology

Forts of the West, An Introduction
In time, numerous forts stretched across the west. Many of them are noted in the history of the American west because of battles involving them or that they were the location important treaties being signed. The names of some of these forts have become well known through out annuls of American Western history while today the names of so many of them are not now familiar to other than the most devoted historian. This series will attempts to bring to life many of these locations, both noted and obscure.
laramie • wyoming • leavenworth • kansas • fort kearny

Ghost Town
Just at the stroke of midnight a ghostly Ghost Town appears on the plains. The town is populated with the ghosts of the Earps, Doc. Holiday, Jesse and Frank James, Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, and many other western notables.
ghost town • jesse • frank • james • hickok

Kansas Charley on His Own
Kansas Charley is dumped at the railroad by Mr. Booth. Charley has no money or food. He receives a letter from New York with enough money to get him back to New York.
kansas charley on his own • charley miller takes a new name • st. charles in minnesota • children’s aid society in new york city • kansas

Legends Behind the Northern Lights
A large mythology of the aurora grew up in different cultures that witnessed the lights to explain what they were and why they occurred.
aurora • northern lights • southern lights • myths • legends

Medicine Wheels
High in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming lies a pattern constructed entirely of stones. It, and others like it, are known as Medicine Wheels. It is believed that they were constructed by the ancient ancestors of the Plains Indian Tribes.
medicine wheel • bighorn • mountains • wyoming • plains indians

The Railroad, part 11
The Kansas Pacific reaches Fort Riley, Kansas in 1866 where Custer is forming the Seventh Cavalry. The following year the track extend to Abilene and Ellsworth. William Cody is supply the construction crews with meat. Soon, the cattle drives begin and the cow town is born.
railroad • kansas pacific • smoky hills • custer • cody

The Railroad, part 12
In 1844 Asa Whitney envisioned a railroad, stretching across the United States from ocean to ocean and began seeking possible routes that would reach from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Coast. Before Congress he proposes such a railroad, asked for a vast land grant, and assures Congress that the Indians will be of no concern. In the next ten years many Indian tribes are forced to concede thousands of acres with some tribes being removed to Indian Territory. The Union Pacific is given until July 1, 1876, to reach the western boundary of Nevada Territory, and God help anyone, white or red, who stands in its way.
railroad • asa whitney • indians • native americans • plains indians

Towns on the Plains: An Introduction, part 1
Towns on the Great Plains were started for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it would be because of a railroad coming through, or because gold had been discovered near by. Some towns lasted through the years and are still there today. Some just dwindled away and became ghost towns.
towns • great plains • prairie • cheyenne • wyoming

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