The disgraced late president was an unlikely champion of this symbol of the Wild West.
Deanne Stillman
Deanne Stillman is a best-selling author whose latest book is American Confidential: Uncovering the Bizarre Story of Lee Harvey Oswald and His Mother. She is also the author of Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West.
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A Marine, Two Murders, and a War on Women
In 2001, my book, Twentynine Palms, about death near a California Marine base, exposed class and sexual violence in a military town. Some things are better now, many are not.
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The Battle of Little Bighorn and Why It Never Ends
Custer’s last stand was 150 years ago. As America wrestles with its 250th birthday, this commemoration also cuts to the heart of who we are.
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What Pete Hegseth Could Learn from Buffalo Bill
The famed western showman lamented the killing of Sitting Bull and the suffering of the Lakota tribe at Wounded Knee. The “Secretary of War” pretends it didn’t happen.
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Alligator Alcatraz: The ICE Detention Center Is a Sin Against Nature
The effort to turn part of the Everglades into a prison for migrants desecrates the famed Florida ecosystem.
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Trump as Death of a Salesman’s Willy Loman
As payment for his civil fraud conviction comes due, Trump looks more like the desperate, duplicitous figure at the heart of the famous play.
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Mothers, Sons, and Guns
The author of a searing book on the fraught relationship between Lee Harvey Oswald and his mother reflects on the recent landmark conviction of a Michigan mom for her role in her son’s school shooting.
