Guide, hunter, cowboy, and showman, Cody’s persona still looms large in world history. Guide, hunter, cowboy, and showman, Cody's persona still looms large in the history of Western Kansas and the ...

Buffalo Bill called his talented assortment of Plains Indians, cowboys and bronco busters “The Congress of Rough Riders,” a name Teddy Roosevelt would borrow for his volunteer cavalry troops that ...

Sitting Bull was the political and spiritual leader of the Sioux warriors who destroyed General George Armstrong Custer's force in the famous battle of Little Big Horn. Years later he joined Buffalo ...

I: Pony express -- The attack on the settler's cabin -- The village...the cyclone -- With the prince of pistoleers -- Guide and scout -- Buffalo hunt -- II: Theater star -- Indians, horses -- ...

Last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that he was cancelling the Pentagon’s review of the Medals of Honor given to cavalry soldiers who participated in the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, ...

Editor’s note: Solano Chronicles appears every other Sunday in the print edition of the Vallejo Times-Herald. Famed frontiersman William Cody was disappointed in 1902 with what he termed his first and ...

Buffalo Bill Cody wasn’t just a man of the West—he became the myth that defined it. Reporters built him into a legend, but much of his fame grew from carefully staged reenactments of real violence and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Frank Lehner photographs of ...