Some list this story under “Canadian folklore.” Others think it's scary but fake. Author Barbara Smith, include it in her “Ghost Stories of...
Alberta’s Ghost Train
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Jana Bommersbach
Senior Citizens to the Rescue
Volunteer hours: 9,000. That’s 375 days—more than a year of nonstop labor. That’s what it took for 75 volunteers in Hankinson, North Dakota—an...
One Way to Save the Ranch
It was a familiar story in the Old West. Family ranch catches the eye of a cattleman's association that wants to buy the property—and isn't about to...
Mangas Coloradas’ Undue Fate
There's no way to look at the murder and mutilation of Apache Chief Mangas Coloradas without horror. He is considered by historians as one one of...
Saving Hamley’s Saddles
In five decades, he never forgot the smell of the leather at Hamley & Co.’s saddle shop in Pendleton, Oregon. In his sixth decade, he brought...
Saved by YouTube
"Grandma, you can find anything on YouTube,” Erin Ghedi’s 17-year-old granddaughter, Gabby, told her four years ago. What Erin and her husband, Jim,...
Buffalo Bill Busted
William “Buffalo Bill” Cody was a lucky man. From a hardscrabble youth that began in a log cabin in Iowa Territory, he grew up to survive the Civil...
Keeping Movies Alive
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was among the first. Dr. Rennard Strickland found the movie poster for the 1962 John Ford classic, “Together for...
Bust Cream, Anyone?
We think of the late 1800s as a time of Victorian refinement, with sensitivities so severe, one was to use the term “limb,” rather than the vulgar...
Paranoia Takes Jim Murhpy
DON'T LET THE PARANOIA GET YA: That's what should have been etched on the tombstone of Jim Murphy. Jim was a 200-pounder with a red mustache and...
The Cheapskate of All Time
OK, there are probably hundreds of examples of men (and women) being cheapskates—not paying what they owed, or haggling over the bill. But here's...
The Horseless Carriage Was Seriously Underestimated
“The horseless carriage...will never come into as common use as the bicycle,” the Literary Digest declared in 1899—two years after Henry Ford and...