The Real West

The character of Custer and how it affected the outcome of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, in which he and his men were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors.

The impulsive heroics, the fatal miscalculations, and the vain ambitions of three colorful frontier heroes out to carve their marks into American folklore: Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Bennet Travis.

Biography of Geronimo, the legendary Chiricahua Apache leader who refused to let his people be placed on a reservation and fought the US Army and local Arizona residents for many years in the late 1800s. He even raided into Mexico, terrorizing the population and battling Mexican troops.

As most history leans to the males, here at least the folklore heroines of the Old American West get their just rewards.They were not exactly prissy little fillies.