You can stand in some spots and feel “the power of the place.” “It’s what you feel when you stand in the ruts left by thousands of covered wagons,” Gregory Franzwa once said. “You get out there, and if you don’t feel it, you’re either dead or don’t know history. If you do know history, there’s tremendous meaning in being able to stand in those ruts.” Thanks to Gregory, more Americans can feel that power of place along the Oregon Trail, where a half-million emigrants cros

July 2009
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- How I Ruined My Kids for History
- American West: Then & Now
- What do they use in guns to make them smoke after they’re fired?
- How can I tell original brothel tokens from replicas?
- What is the title of the song sung by the villagers in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch?
- Who was Will McLaury, who was gunned down in Tombstone?
- What Western features an outlaw gang in Seymour, Indiana.
- 10 Ways to Get Your Kids Hooked on History
- Wichita, Kansas
- Vince Murray
- Navajo Country on Horseback
- The Texas Camel Corps Camel Treks
- Living in a 100-Year-Old Mercantile
- Filming the Oregon Trail
- Movie Magic Muzzleloaders
- Keep Up the Fight
- Celebrating July Fourth
- Watch Those Splinters!
- Preservation: Where the Bodies are Buried
- Popular Poppies
- Irate Ira Nails the McClellands!
- Where’s the Beef?