Hostile Territory

The far West. A father will save his son from the grief of his wife's death. He defies the spirits of the ghosts and Indian tribes in order to give his son a new life.

Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok are buried side by side at Mount Moriah Cemetery above Deadwood, South Dakota. Every tourist reads it as a love story. They knew each other about six weeks. This is Calamity Jane: fact vs fiction. The real Martha Jane Canary against the legend she helped build. She met Hickok on a wagon train out of Fort Laramie around July 1, 1876, after the Army put her on it to get rid of her. He had married Agnes Lake Thatcher that March. He was murdered in Deadwood on August 2. Not one contemporary account from that summer describes a romance. So where did the love story come from? On Mother's Day 1941, a woman named Jean Hickok Burkhardt McCormick went on national radio claiming to be their secret daughter, with a diary and letters as proof. It fooled the country for fifty years. It falls apart on one fact: Martha Canary could not read or write. We check her against the 1860 census, the 1875 Chicago Tribune dispatch that first printed the nickname, and the work of historian James D. McLaird. We cover the Army scout claim that Captain Jack Crawford flatly denied, the 1878 smallpox winter that actually holds up, the marriage to William Steers, and the daughter almost nobody talks about. Got family roots in Deadwood or the Black Hills? Leave your story in the comments. Real Stories. Rough Country. Welcome to Saddle & Smoke — where the American Wild West comes alive through raw, untold history. Subscribe to Saddle & Smoke for more untold Wild West stories, outlaw history, cowboy legends, gold rush tales, frontier mysteries, and the darker side of American history. New episodes explore the real Wild West — one story at a time. #WildWest #OldWest #AmericanHistory #WesternHistory #Outlaws #Cowboys #FrontierHistory #SaddleAndSmoke

When her family’s life is threatened by a conniving gang of outlaws led by the nefarious John Bishop (Ewan McGregor), Jane (Natalie Portman) seeks help from her former fiancé (Joel Edgerton), now a gunslinger.

The battle at LZ X-Ray became famous through We Were Soldiers. But the fighting in the Ia Drang Valley did not end there. On November 17, 1965, men of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry were moving toward Landing Zone Albany when North Vietnamese forces struck from the tall elephant grass. What followed became one of the most devastating American encounters of the Vietnam War: 155 U.S. soldiers were killed and 124 wounded. This is the story of LZ Albany — what happened after X-Ray, how an American column was caught exposed, how small groups fought to survive, and why this chapter of Ia Drang remains far less remembered than the battle that came before it. Forgotten War Stories explores the real battles, soldiers, decisions, and details that movies often leave behind. ________________________ 00:00 The Battle “We Were Soldiers” Didn't Show 01:38 After LZ X-Ray 06:50 The Walk to Albany 09:17 The Trap Takes Shape 12:57 The Ambush Erupts 17:37 The American Advantage Disappears 21:43 Fighting Into the Night 25:30 The Cost of LZ Albany 29:30 What “We Were Soldiers” Left Out ________________________ #WeWereSoldiers #VietnamWar #LZAlbany #IaDrang #LZXRay #VietnamHistory #MilitaryHistory #USArmy #7thCavalry #1stCavalry #WarHistory #ForgottenHistory #AmericanHistory #VietnamVeterans #ForgottenWarStories

In the vast Montana frontier of 1882, a group of free-grazing cowboys travels across the open range, determined to live by their own code of freedom, loyalty, and honor. But when their journey brings them into a town controlled by a ruthless cattle baron, their peaceful way of life is suddenly threatened. Boss Spearman and Charley Waite refuse to surrender to Denton Baxter, a powerful rancher who rules the territory through fear and violence. After one of their companions is brutally attacked, the cowboys realize that walking away is no longer an option. As Charley's violent past begins to resurface, the conflict builds toward an explosive showdown where every man will have to decide what he is willing to fight for. Chapters / Timecodes: 00:00 – Cowboys of the Open Range 12:18 – Entering Dangerous Territory 33:46 – The Rancher's Warning 57:21 – Violence Breaks the Peace 1:21:43 – Charley's Past Returns 1:48:27 – The Final Gunfight Movie Facts: Release Year: 2003 Genre: Western / Drama / Action Language: English Starring: Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon #OpenRange #KevinCostner #RobertDuvall #AnnetteBening #Western #ClassicWestern #CowboyMovie #ActionWestern #HollywoodClassic #FullMovie