State & Local
epub |eng | 2013-04-10 | Author:Robert Dykstra [Dykstra, Robert]

Murphy visited Dodge City in January and told the Globe’s editor that a great number in his area desperately needed aid. Returning home from the flesh pots of Dodge he ...
( Category: State & Local September 30,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Roxie J. Zwicker

Mount Auburn Cemetery remains one of the most visited cemeteries in the world. Before the establishment of Mount Auburn Cemetery, people’s beliefs about death were dark and gloomy; the grim ...
( Category: New England September 30,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Melanie Zimmer

NON-IROQUOIS LITTLE PEOPLE Native Americans were not the only groups to report sightings of Little People in this region. Aaron S. Popple told me a story of a sighting he ...
( Category: State & Local September 29,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:J. Grahame Long

VI TROUBLE FROM HOME Although pillage defined how many Charleston civilians experienced the city’s military occupations, it was most assuredly not the only element of strife they had to endure. ...
( Category: South September 28,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Dr. Walter Earl Pittman

Apache Canyon, 1880. Courtesy of the Museum of New Mexico. Pyron’s men didn’t hold long. Chivington—who, though a rank amateur, seems to have had natural military talent—quickly deployed his superior ...
( Category: Southwest September 28,2022 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Diane Ham

Gravestone of Johanna Kirschner, Pittsford Cemetery. Photo by Vicki Profitt. The funeral of Mrs. Kirschner was held on the Monday following her death. She had no children and was survived ...
( Category: Mid-Atlantic September 28,2022 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-13 | Author:Marilyn E. Weigold

4 At War Down to the Sea in Subs The genial host and his world-famous guest were no strangers to conflict. One produced weapons of destruction; the other had recently ...
( Category: State & Local September 28,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:James A. Crutchfield

THE GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL 1881 October 26, 1881, was a typical Wednesday in the booming mining town of Tombstone. Men and women scurried up and down Fremont Street ...
( Category: State & Local September 28,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Randy Stapilus

CHAPTER 9 James McParland He was the Great Detective. That was his nickname, and so he was widely regarded, to the point that an homage to him appeared—in a thinly ...
( Category: West September 27,2022 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2022-08-15 | Author:Walter Prescott Webb [Webb, Walter Prescott]

28. The evolution of barbed wire—preliminary efforts (see page 298). (Courtesy Industrial Museum, American Steel and Wire Company) Whether or not Glidden was the inventor of barbed wire is not ...
( Category: Midwest September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-07-12 | Author:Casey Sherman [Sherman, Casey]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE State police lieutenant Bernie Flynn had just entered the barracks in Yarmouth for what would be another long, slogging day on the case when he was handed a ...
( Category: New England September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Tricia Martineau Wagner [Wagner, Tricia Martineau]

A KINDNESS RETURNED William F. Alexander, Trail Doctor •1852• Dr. William F. Alexander, looking rather disheveled, left the livery carrying a cumbersome canvas sack of sawdust on his shoulder. He ...
( Category: State & Local September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-19 | Author:Alastair Fraser [Fraser, Alastair]

Brooks then turned half left and took this photograph of two men crawling on hands and knees towards the trench. They are on the New Beaumont Road and are probably ...
( Category: New England September 19,2022 )