Author: Tom
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….
Back to Baseball
Jerry Coleman served his country as a pilot during World War II, then returned home to play professional baseball. 1949 marked the first of five…
A Yankee Pilot
It is difficult to fathom the changes that took place in everyday life in the United State, yet alone Hawaii, after December 1941. Sports took…