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Category Archives: American Frontier
The Ride of Paul Revere
Introduction We were taught as children about the midnight ride of Paul Revere. It was a great story for young children — fourth or fifth grade, perhaps. That dashing silversmith — who, booted and spurred and with a heavy stride, … Continue reading
El Peludo
Introduction For thousands of years before the modern era, the land of present-day Arizona was home to several Indian civilizations. The first European to establish contact with Arizona Indians was Marcos de Niza in 1539. Several other historically significant Spaniards … Continue reading
An Act: To Provide for the Protection of Texas
According to some modern sociologists, Texas culture is among the major influences of American society today. Even despite waves of immigrants (an amalgamation of Tejano, Anglo, Irish, Cajun, and African cultures) and the many tragedies impacting life in the Lone … Continue reading
A Black Speck
A black speck appears against the sky, and it is plain that it moves. … Another instant and man and horse burst past our excited faces and go winging away like the belated fragment of a storm. —Mark Twain (Roughing … Continue reading
Posted in American Frontier, American Indians, California, Civil War, Colorado, Gunfights and such, History, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Pony Express
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Hell’s Fury
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. —William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1697)[1] Between 1960-63, the ABC Television Network hosted an entertaining crime drama called The Naked City. The star … Continue reading
Posted in American Frontier, Civil War, Goldrush, Gunfights and such, History, Justice, Missouri, Society, The Ladies
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Mister Montana
Last week — … we examined the outlaw sheriff operating in and around Virginia City-Bannack, in the Idaho/Montana Territory. This week, we will look at a man who some would argue was as bad as the outlaw sheriff, only better … Continue reading
Outlaw Sheriff
William Henry Handy Plumer was born in Addison, Maine in 1832. He was the youngest of six children born to Jeremiah and Elizabeth Plumer. Jeremiah died when William was still a teenager. Henry left home in 1851, at age 19, … Continue reading
Posted in American Frontier, California, Corruption, Goldrush, Gunfights and such, History, Idaho, Montana, Outlaws, Society
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Old West Shootouts
My parents encouraged reading, and I attended schools where there was always a well-stocked library of the things I was interested in — explorers, adventurers, and frontiersmen. They were primarily biographies of such men as William Penn, George Washington, Thomas … Continue reading
Posted in American Frontier, Colorado, Gunfights and such, History, Indian War, Kansas, Kansas Law Dogs, Society
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Old Paint
Following the French and Indian War (1754-63), the British colony of Virginia extended from the Atlantic seaboard to the eastern bank of the Mississippi River. Few British subjects traveled beyond the Appalachian Mountains until the early 1770s. The area of … Continue reading
Spirits in Mooney Basin
In 1929, English author Montague James offered five key features of ghost stories: They offer the pretense of truth, a “pleasing” sense of terror, they avoid bloodshed and sex, they avoid trying to explain the mechanism, and they offer a … Continue reading
Searching History 