Wild West – June 2019

BLOODBATH AT

PYRAMID LAKE

By Gregory Crouch

William Ormsby led a Nevada volunteer force

to punish the Paiutes but ran into an ambush

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CONFIDENTIALLY

TOLD IN

BROWN’S PARK

By Linda Wommack

Hiram “Hi” Bernard revealed

how Colorado cattle barons hired

killer Tom Horn to protect their interests

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THE COLONEL WHO

BLAMED CUSTER
By John Koster
His son Jack died in the Little Bighorn fiasco,
and Samuel Sturgis faulted George Armstrong

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MEMORY AND

THE ROSEBUD

By Paul L. Hedren

The Northern Cheyennes

will never forget the June 17,

1876, battle in their homeland

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