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HISTORY VAULT

The Southern Cheyenne migrate to Colorado; Chivington and the Sand Creek Massacre.

The Real West

Forced by settlers to migrate, the Northern Cheyenne allied with the Sioux, but gold soon made peace difficult to maintain.

Virginia City's silver mines made it a 19th-century boomtown.

Gen. George Crook fights Indians then, in peacetime, promotes their cause.

The story of Chicago, a desolate prairie town that became the second-largest city in the United States.

Early paleontologists Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker deal with hostile Indians, creationists and professional rivalry.

Controversy surrounds the deaths of bank robbers Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

John Wesley Powell led the first major exploration of the Colorado River in 1869.

The Earp brothers wear badges and spill blood.

Sensational news stories and dime novels make heroes of Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok.

Thousands brave mountains and Yukon River rapids to reach Klondike gold fields.

Chief Joseph leads the Nez Perce to sanctuary in Canada.

Myths, legends and realities of the American frontier.