Candy Moulton
Stories by Candy Moulton
From Hondo to Big Ike
Glenshannon's spread was one of the biggest in Texas - or anywhere...
Tracking the Great Bear
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark wrote often of encounters with Ursus horribilis (grizzly bears) as they made their pioneering journey across the Louisiana Purchase during 1804-1806.
A Half-Breed Son-of-a-Basque
Like two horses harnessed together, the West of change and the West of complexity alternativly gallop and prance, slip and stumble," writes Richard Etulain.
Whiskey-Runnin' Whoop-Up Trail
The landscape, along the Whoop-Up Trail was "rolling prairie", cut up occasionally by collies [coulees] - covered with short, dried up grass and prickly pear.
Digging Up Massacres
Since the day it happened, Sand Creek Massacre has maintained its station as one of the most emotionally charged and controversial events in American history.
Zebulon Pike's Wandering Explorations
I guess you could say Zebulon Pike made a grand circle tour in 1806-07, although that wasn't his intention when he set out on a reconnaissance of the Louisiana Purchase in July 1806.
Did She Strike Down Custer?
The end of the world began that day.
Military Chronicler
Charles M. Robinson III has written of sea stories and classic cars, but mainly has followed the men of the frontier army from Texas and Arizona to the Northern Plains.
Oklahoma's 101 Ranch
In 1879, Col. George Washington Miller with son, Joe, then age 11, rode across the Cherokee Outlet, looking for rangeland where they could run cattle.