Renegade Roads
Oregon at 160

Oregon at 160

When wealthy trapper Ewing Young died in 1841 in what is Oregon today, he had no apparent heirs, and there was no way to determine how to handle his...

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Hell on Wheels

Hell on Wheels

A century and a half ago the Iron Horse galloped across the prairie and plains of Nebraska then over and around the mountains and across the...

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Blood on the Earth

Blood on the Earth

Two months separated the 1868 clashes between the U.S. military and the Indians at Beecher Island and the Washita River. One is known for heroism on...

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Hancock’s War

Hancock’s War

Second Lieutenant Lyman S. Kidder, 7th Cavalry, was unlucky. I knew that before beginning this road trip, but as I step out of my Jeep in a remote...

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