The Territory Map
A stylized frontier map — not to precise geographic scale — marking the towns, forts, trails, and battle sites where the archive's figures lived, fought, and died.
Abilene, Kansas
Rowdy cattle-trail terminus where Hickok served as town marshal.
Black Hills
Sacred Lakota land, guaranteed by treaty in 1868 and seized after gold was discovered in 1874.
Bosque Redondo
Internment camp where thousands of Navajo people suffered after the Long Walk of 1864.
Chiricahua Apache Homeland
Ancestral homeland fought over for decades by Cochise and Geronimo.
Chisholm Trail
Primary cattle-drive route from Texas to Kansas railheads.
Darke County, Ohio
Birthplace of Annie Oakley.
Deadwood, Dakota Territory
Lawless gold-camp where Wild Bill Hickok was killed and Calamity Jane made her name.
El Paso, Texas
Site of John Wesley Hardin's killing in the Acme Saloon in 1895.
Fort Lyon, Colorado
Site of Kit Carson's death in 1868.
Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Geronimo's final home as a prisoner of war after 1894.
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Base of Judge Isaac Parker's federal court and Bass Reeves's operations.
Fort Sumner
Site of Billy the Kid's death at the hands of Pat Garrett in 1881.
Hays City, Kansas
Indian Territory
Vast, lawless jurisdiction Bass Reeves patrolled for over three decades.
Kearney, Missouri
Birthplace of Jesse James.
Lincoln, New Mexico
Site of the brutal Lincoln County War that launched Billy the Kid's outlaw career.
Little Bighorn River
Site of Custer's total defeat by combined Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho forces in 1876.
Muskogee, Oklahoma
Bass Reeves's final years as a municipal police patrolman.
North Platte, Nebraska
Home base of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West touring show.
Northfield, Minnesota
Site of the catastrophic 1876 bank raid that shattered the James-Younger gang.
O.K. Corral
Site of the thirty-second gunfight between the Earps and the Clanton-McLaury faction.
Oregon Trail
The great overland emigrant route to the Pacific Northwest.
Santa Fe Trail
Vital commercial route connecting Missouri to the Southwest.
St. Joseph, Missouri
Site of Jesse James's assassination by Robert Ford in 1882.
Standing Rock Agency
Reservation where Sitting Bull lived his final years and was killed in 1890.
Taos, New Mexico
Kit Carson's home base for most of his adult life.
Tombstone, Arizona
Silver boomtown and site of the gunfight near the O.K. Corral.
Wounded Knee
Site of the 1890 massacre that closed the era of armed Native resistance on the northern plains.