By: Peggy L Henderson On my recent vacation, it was fun to buy a few potential research books that might come in handy for future histo...

Yes, believe it or not séances were not uncommon in frontier days. In her article TRAIL’S END – Spiritualism: Talking to the dead in the...

Quite naturally, Esther Morris was a judge in the beautiful state of Wyoming back in 1870. But hers is not the story of a female looking ...

We think of pioneer women hand sewing all their clothing and bedding, but in 1851 Isaac Merritt Singer patented a sewing machine practica...

Reference:   Into the Modern Age:  The Adoption of Standard Time critical enquiry.org/wo/2012/11/30/into-the-modern-age-the-adoption-...

Bad boys of the Old West—they’re endlessly fascinating. Why is that? Maybe it’s because they lived such bold, flash-in-the-pan lives, as ...

There are so many cities and towns in Texas that own a piece of my heart. Galveston is but one of them. My first trip to the island was...