“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…
Life is full of surprises, and few people would have known that better than the Americans who participated in the…
Today, the Great Plains is an area of great resources and beauty. Nevertheless, during past days and even current times,…
No one knows, or will ever fully understand, why Caroline Henderson, nee Boa, daughter of a prosperous Iowa farmer, graduate…
Sometimes the best plans go awry, and for intrepid female Matilda Glover Koontz Jackson, first aspirations of pioneering could easily…
"Two days after Thanksgiving, hospitable Anna Eleanor Roosevelt…motored in a White House car from Washington to visit the Tygart Valley…
Amelia Stewart Knight knew the cross-country journey west would be a rough one; it was not for the weak or…
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…
Clearly, it was not the best day in Daniel Freeman's life. He'd been on the trail for over three weeks,…
In Medical Folkways in America – Part One: Maggots, Hairballs, and Eels, we looked at how things used to be, way…