The Great American History Blog

  Throughout the early 19th century various proposals were made to use camels imported from the Middle East to transport supplies in the des...

  In 1855 the U.S. government approved an experimental plan to use camels imported from the Middle East for transporting supplies and equipm...

  Between 1905 and 1915 a bandit nicknamed “Hacksaw Tom” supposedly carried out a series of robberies on wagons and stagecoaches along Arizo...

  The Hanging Tree Legend has it that in 1863 Henry Wickenburg discovered gold when he went to retrieve a vulture he shot.   Wickenburg name...

  In 1964, country singer Johnny Cash wrote a song entitled “Custer” for his album Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian.   “ Custer”...

  License issued by Wyatt Earp in March 1876 Prostitution was a growth industry in the Old West. Prostitutes were often licensed by public o...

  Punts are the name given to the flat bottomed wooden boats, which form a quintessentially Oxford (or Cambridge) experience.  Punting  is b...

  Paititi is a legendary lost city of the Inca which lies east of the Andes in the remote rainforests of Peru or Brazil.   Paititi was suppo...

Shakespeare’s grave is in Holy Trinity Church, in Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616, at the age of 52. Inscription ...

Jane Austen  Winchester Cathedral                               Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, England. In Memor...

  Iron Hail Wasu Maza (“Iron Hail”), who died in 1955 at the age of ninety six, was the last known Lakota Sioux survivor (and probably the l...

  Stand Watie (1806-1871), was a Cherokee chief who signed the treating forcing removal of the Cherokees from Georgia to the Indian Territor...

  After the battle of the Little Bighorn this petition, dated July 4, 1876, was sent by the enlisted men of the Seventh Cavalry to the Presi...

  In 1877 a twenty-five year old Edgar S. Paxson arrived in Montana.   Nearly twenty-five years later the frontier artist completed what man...

  In 1884 the artists Cassilly Adams completed a painting he named Custer’s Last Fight.  The painting was sold to John Ferber the owner of a...

  George Washington loved dogs and had some fifty dogs of many different breeds during his lifetime.   Breeds at Mount Vernon included Briar...

  Elves, or "hidden people" as they are commonly referred to in Iceland, are a part of Icelandic folklore and mythology. According...