Americans’ fascination with the Old West continues to this day. Test your knowledge of this historic period by answering these questions. The answers appear at right.
1. Who rallied his troops using the war-cry, “Remember the Alamo” when he caught Santa Anna’s army?
2. What American Indian warrior is memorialized on a mountainside in the Black Hills of South Dakota?
3. What beautiful western area became the world’s first national park in 1872?
4. What group was trapped in the Sierra Nevada throughout the winter of 1846-1847?
5. What gang attempted the infamous double bank robbery in Coffeyville, Kan., in 1892?
6. “We Never Sleep” was the slogan of what detective agency?
7. Who became one of the most famous women in America after Chief Sitting Bull named her “Little Sure Shot?”
8. What was the “dead man’s hand” that Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was murdered during a poker game?
9. What elusive Apache was the last American Indian leader to surrender to the U.S. government?
10. Where did the gunfight at the O.K. Corral take place?
11. What invention caused the demise of the Pony Express in 1861?
