For over two decades, we have been tailoring comprehensive bus and walking tours to the hallowed sites where American history unfolded. By laying eyes upon the scene, and walking the ground in conversation with the most authoritative and passionate guides, we gain a fuller understanding of the events that transpired there.

2023 TOURS & events

Bad to the Bone: Outlaws & Gunmen
Beginning and ending in El Paso, retired National Park Service historian Neil Mangum will lead an adventure in the tracks of John Wesley Hardin, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Elfego Baca, Pancho Villa, Johnny Ringo, and the legends of Tombstone. 
​El Paso, Texas. October 11-17, 2023. 

2024 TOURS & events

1864: The Tide Turns
March 1-3, 2024 conference focusing on the pivotal year 1864 (160th anniversary), with Gary Gallagher, Harold Holzer, Gordon Rhea, Craig Symonds, and Joan Waugh. Headquartered in Monterey, on the beautiful Central Coast of California. 
The Battle of the Little Bighorn
A custom, small-group van tour with historian Jim Hessler. Visit rarely-visited sites, including Deer Medicine Rocks and the Crow's Nest, before making a comprehensive exploration of the battlefield. Billings, Montana. August 2-4, 2024. 

Photo of the Day

—Grant moves south— "General view of the Battle of the Wilderness, from a point north of the tavern, looking toward Parker's store." Edwin Forbes. Library of Congress. ​

McClellan and Lee
The Seven Days Battles 
June 10–12, 2022
​with Robert E. L. Krick​
(Richmond, Virginia)

One evening event and two full days of bus tours covering the Seven Days. "The thirty thousand men killed and wounded in the Seven Days’ equaled the number of casualties in all the battles in the western theater—including Shiloh—during the first half of 1862 (James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom).
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Grant and Lee
The 1864 ​Overland Campaign
June 14–18, 2022, with Gordon Rhea
(Richmond, Virginia)

After an opening night reception and orientation at our Richmond Airport hotel, enjoy four full days of battlefield tours with the preeminent historian of the monumental Overland Campaign. Our bus and walking expeditions will explore the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, and Cold Harbor battlefields on successive days.  

Billy the Kid and
​the Lincoln County War
August 4–8, 2022
​with Neil Mangum
(Albuquerque, New Mexico)

Ride along for a deep dive into the life & legend of Billy the Kid, and the Lincoln County War, with historian-guided tours of the sites and scenes of Billy’s life, and death.  We'll range from Mesilla and Blazer's Mill  to the Tunstall murder site and historic Lincoln, ultimately making our way to Fort Sumner, where the Kid was gunned down, and where he was buried.   

"From where the sun now stands,
​I will fight no more forever"
Chief Joseph, & the Flight of the Nez Percé
Aug. 28–Sept. 5, 2022 
​with historian Neil Mangum
​(from Spokane, WA to Great Falls, MT)
9 nights and 8 days following the Nez Percé Trail, with one full day in Yellowstone National Park, and a visit to the acclaimed Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. The Nez Percé fought off and eluded pursuing U.S. cavalry for 1,170 miles over 128 days. We'll trace the route (in a luxury motor coach) through some of the most beautiful landscapes of the American West, with scheduled stops and comfortable lodging along the way (included in your registration). 

​two hundred and one years on​
The Santa Fe Trail
October 3–11, 2022
​with Neil Mangum
(from Kansas City to Albuquerque)
Ride along with the former Southwest Regional Historian for the National Park Service as we commemorate 201 years of history on the Santa Fe Trail. We'll visit museums, extant wagon ruts, forts, Pueblos, battlefields and more on the Great Prairie Highway. Registration and Full Itinerary