Darling Downs man John Egan honouring his family’s history with 11th Light Horse Darling Downs Troop
John Egan came across two photographs hanging in the RSL club of his hometown, standing out among a wall of Australian ...
The Courier-Mail3d
Darling Downs man John Egan honouring his family’s history with 11th Light Horse Darling Downs Troop
He has since found out that one of his relatives had fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 and had been recognised in a monument where they spelt his last name wrong. The 11th Light ...
Deceased rare Arctic bird to become part of collection at museum in Lawrence
A rare Arctic bird found deceased last week in southwest Kansas will become part of the collection at Lawrence's Kansas ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat15d
Close calls, mass murder and fireworks: Petaluma’s very big year
1876 was the U.S. Centennial year and Petaluma ... General George Custer and his cadre of 300 men were killed in the battle at Little Big Horn. No one knows how many Native Americans were killed ...
The Topeka Capital-Journal10d
Deceased rare Arctic bird to become part of collection at museum in Lawrence
A rare Ross's gull, typically found in Arctic regions, was found dead in Kansas. The Ross's gull will become part of the University of Kansas Natural History Museum's collection. The bird, first ...
Cowboy State Daily28d
The American West: Thomas H. Leforge/Horse Rider - Walking In Two Worlds
Mitch Bouyer served a guide for that expedition. He and Horse Rider maintained a friendship until Mitch was killed at the Battle of the Greasy Grass (Little Bighorn) in 1876. While on a mission to ...
Argus Courier15d
Close calls, mass murder and fireworks: Petaluma’s very big year
In November of 1876, the United States witnessed the ... General George Custer and his cadre of 300 men were killed in the battle at Little Big Horn. No one knows how many Native Americans were ...
The Paintsville Herald14d
Time: the most paradoxical of things
It must have something to do with my age, but the passing of time as it relates to dates and events seems to be giving the brain in this knotty ...
worldathletics25d
"The wings of an eagle" – Mills soars into the Museum of World Athletics
He was accorded warrior status by the elders Oglala Lakota, a proud tribe whose past leaders included Crazy Horse, the Native American hero of the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. A prominent ...
montanafreepress17d
Awaxaawippíia — an exclusive excerpt from ‘The Crazies: the Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West’
The mountains officially became Crazy in 1876, when a War Department cartographer labeled ... has led an ongoing project called the Apsáalooke Place Names Database since 1996 at Little Big Horn ...