CLAIM TO FAME “The Queen of the Cowtowns” sprang into existence with the arrival of the Santa Fe Railway in 1872, allowing first for the shipping of native buffaloes (slaughtered by the hundred thousands), followed by longhorn cattle driven up…
CLAIM TO FAME –The Black Hills Gold Rush swept into this gulch of dead trees in 1876, bringing with it a torrent of fortune-seekers, including the legendary Wild Bill Hickok, who was shot in the back by Jack McCall during…
CLAIM TO FAME – The “town too tough to die” was founded in 1877 by prospector Ed Schieffelin, who had been assured he would find nothing in the Apache-infested desert except his own tombstone.
His Majesty’s Southern Department of Loyal Indian Allies is a historical reenactment organization dedicated to the portrayal of the active period of the British Southern Indian Department in the Colonies – roughly from the middle of the 18th century through…
“Reenacting” or “living history” is a hobby where the participants try to portray people of the past. Some people just have a hard time conceiving of this, they ask “DO they pay you?”
