Painting by Charles M. Russell On a warm July day in 1874, 275 men, 310 horses, 143 oxen and 187 carts and wagons left Fort Dufferin, Manitoba. Each man was dressed in a bright red uniform with polished boots. Optimism was high, as the two-kilometre...
Glenbow Archives No era in United States history has captured the imagination of generations more than the Wild West. From movies to television to books, it’s well documented in pop culture, and by extension, heavily fictionalized. When you think of...