If Vera McGinnis’ love story were a Country Western song, it would go something like this: “He dragged her heart around that ring, that handsome...
Vera’s Cowboy Done Her Wrong
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True Westerners
Narcissa Whitman
There were really two Americas in the 1800s, separated by the...
Vera McGinns
She hardly even tried to describe the pain, but of course, how could she? What words are there to recount a ton of horseflesh landing on your tiny...
The Saint of Stillwater Prison
The closest the surviving Younger brothers ever got to heaven was a prison guard who may be declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. “Barney”...
Sacagawea’s Improbable Reunion
Lewis and Clark didn’t name a single landmark to commemorate their teenage interpreter, Sacagawea. They did honor her with “Bird Woman River,”...
Aunt Sally
AUNT SALLY—FIRST WOMAN IN THE BLACK HILLS. That’s all it says on her simple, rough wood headboard that now hangs in the Adams Museum in Deadwood. A...