The near extinction of the North American buffalo, which in 1850 covered the mid-western plains b...

In 1867 the New York Times wrote that 'in cunning or native diplomacy Satanta has no equal in bol...

A Civil War hero, victorious Indian fighter and eventual madman, General Ranald S. Mackenzie's fa...

The Great Plains cover the central two-thirds of the United States, and during the nineteenth cen...