Originally published in Points West magazine Winter 2001 How the West was Written By Nathan Bender Former Curator, McCracken Research Library Writing was an integral… Read More
127th Remembrance of the Wounded Knee Massacre
On this day, December 29, 1890, Chief Spotted Elk’s band of Mni Coujou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Sioux were intercepted by the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment… Read More
Treasures from Our West: Colorized postcard of Sitting Bull
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Fall/Winter 2015 1904 colorized postcard of a ca. 1887 photograph of Sitting Bull Likely the best-known American Indian… Read More
Treasures from Our West: Edgar S. Paxson’s “Custer’s Last Stand”
Edgar S. Paxson came to Montana in 1877, a year after the Battle of Little Bighorn. The artist was fascinated by the battle and said,… Read More