The scouting mission collapsed into bloodshed. A young officer paid with his life. What does Thomas Boyd’s death reveal about the brutal price of America’s birth on the Western Frontier? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary, “Thomas Boyd and the Brutality of the Western Frontier,” and confront the raw violence that made independence possible—but history prefers to forget.
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