Birth of a Breed
The day before the fall of the Alamo, in which Santa Anna and his soldiers crushed the rebellion in Texas, Samuel Colt formed the Patent Arms Mfg. Co. in Paterson, New Jersey, on March 5, 1836. In fact, the same day Santa Anna’s forces launched their attack on the...
Dodge City, Kansas
A barrel of whiskey kick-started this frontier burg. The first business that opened on the site of Dodge City was George M. Hoover’s and John McDonald’s saloon built of sod and boards. The partners opened their saloon on June 17, 1872, and sold “red eye” whiskey for...
Tramping Through Our National Parks With John Muir
Tourists that spend their money to see rocks and falls are fools,” a shepherd told John Muir in 1869 during Muir’s fabled First Summer in the Sierra. Since I like rocks and waterfalls, and have often been called a fool, I don’t believe such a statement. I can’t help...
Forgotten Lives: African Americans in South Dakota (Nonfiction)
The overall content of this impressive book reaches far beyond the expectations of its title. Black history in general is given a fresh insight with this detailed exploration of the early men and women who found new roots and new hope in the north-central plains of...
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