Wild Child

My journey of discovery: finding family treasure in the Old West: genealogical digging may unearth Western roots.(PIONEERS AND SETTLERS)(Personal account)
Wild West; 12/1/2009; 1188 words; ...no stories to pass on to children and grandchildren. Then...remembered being told as a child that members on both sides...Angeles in 1849 with four children in a covered wagon from Texas...cafe to support her seven children and later returned to California...OMITTED] Editor's note: Many ...

After crow dog shot spotted tail, Brule law did not end the matter: Crow Dog's attorney appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.(INDIAN LIFE)
Wild West; 12/1/2009; 2065 words; ...council at the Rosebud Agency and--with wife Pretty Camp and a child--started by wagon on the nine-mile drive home. The meeting...to read two articles on Spotted Tail from the February 2006 Wild West.) In accordance with Brule custom, representatives of...

The killing of Dora Hand: the hand of frontier fate and the gun hand of jealous Texas cowboy Spike Kenedy took the life of the popular Dodge City songbird.
Wild West; 12/1/2009; 4032 words; ...beautiful, intelligent and a devout Catholic. She bore Vidal five children and Mifflin six, including Spike, Mifflin's second oldest...At first it seemed to work. But Spike would revert to his wild ways whenever he set foot in Dodge City, where, according...

Becky Olvera Schultz unmasks her native expressions with masks: keeper of the peace is a favorite symbolic creation.(ART OF THE WEST)
Wild West; 12/1/2009; 767 words; ...original Native American spirit of pride, honor, respect and peace." As a child, Schultz collected dolls, but not to play with. "I took joy in designing...expressions.com and see more at www.historynet.com/magazines/wild_west.

From the Barack Obama archives ...(The Long View)
National Review; 11/23/2009; 1311 words; ...Muslim holy month of Ramadan, is a joyful occasion in which children receive, according to custom, many gifts, including those...you hope for, Mr. Eldridge? What did you dream, in your wildest dreams, I'd get on that test? I'm not ashamed to say...