“I had gone to bed one night, but could not sleep. My father was constantly in my mind. I seemed…
"There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made… I…
It was tough to be Black in the U.S. in the era of “reconstruction” which some people frankly think of…
“The days of wilderness adventure are not past! The pioneer spirit is not dead!” These stirring words were written by…
It’s a story with a simple, but remarkable, beginning. In 1910 a Black American entrepreneur joined forces with a legendary…
"I believe the Great Creator has put oil and ores on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As…
In the space of a few short months, two momentous and highly positive events occurred in America, even as the…
History’s ironies never cease to amaze me. The same day that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, on January 1,…
While the question of immigration is on the boil in America, and while the current season is one that should…
The year was 1886. Sears Roebuck helped homesteading happen quite by accident, but it happened at a time when the…
An intrepid, independent soul, Mollie Dorsey was a homesteader in her teens, a gold rusher in her twenties, worked as…
“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner…