Month: October 2009
Limited Married Life at Fort Hays
(Hays, Kansas) – For an enlisted man at Fort Hays, it wasn’t enough to win a young woman’s heart and ask her hand in marriage….
The Men at Fort Hays
The Army certainly needs strong, upstanding young men and women to fill its ranks today. But in the late 19th Century, the reasons men enlisted…
Fort Hays, Kansas
(Fort Hays, Kansas) As Americans moved from east to west, a network of forts sprang up across the high plains to protect travel and commerce….
From Silver Mines to Fields of Sheep
(Ketchum, Idaho) When the silver ran out, the sheep moved in; thousands of them, in fact! This place became one of the largest sheep exporting…
The Ketchum, Idaho Sheep Festival
Today the number of snow skiers to this valley outnumbers the sheep that graze the summer mountainsides. However, the sheep still get the right of…
Swimming in a Sea of Burning Oil
Stu Hedley may have believed that once he left his ship, the West Virginia, in Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941 that…
Surviving Pearl Harbor: A First Hand Account
We’ve heard of the events of December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor. Today, we meet one of the men who survived aboard one of the…
Networking the Union with the Pony Express
Although the first riders of the Pony Express left from St. Joseph, Missouri, it could be argued that the headquarters of the operation was 50…
Forming the Pony Express
They are three names etched in the history of western exploration and settlement: Russell, Majors and Waddell. Here’s one of their ancestors; a woman who…
Dawson Dolly
Skagway, Alaska has a wealth of history from its gold mining days. One of the personalities who shares that story is a lady named Dolly….