Celebrating Pioneer Women
Ida May and Edith Eudora Ammon homesteaded in North Dakota in the 1880s, expecting their venture to be a lark. They intended proving up, getting title to the land, then selling their claims and returning home. But the land captivated them, and soon they were helping...
Bombs Over Texas
“Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,” Mark Twain once said. Obviously, Samuel Langhorne Clemens never met Robert G. Dyrenforth. A U.S. Department of Agriculture special agent, Dyrenforth had been educated at the University of...
Dirty Digs
After recalling a sod house he’d seen at one of the stage stations between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Carson City, Nevada, in 1861, Mark Twain wrote in Roughing It, “It was the first time we had ever seen a man’s front yard on top of his house.” Livestock often grazed...
The Coming of the Sacred Dog
“The God of the Christians is dead. He was made of rotten wood.” These words, allegedly uttered in his native language by Tewa holy man Popé, marked the beginning of the Indian renaissance in North America. For some time, Popé had been telling his fellow Pueblos...
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