Gold Rush Dogs Traveled via Shipboard
Dogs were very much a part of the California gold rush. While it is easy to see how dogs would be brought along by hopeful miners traveling west on horseback […]
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Exploring America
The American Barn: A Disappearing American Icon
The American barn is a quickly-disappearing icon of our country. When rural life in America dominated, barns varied in style and purpose but there was one element they all shared.
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A Pullman Blanket Tells a Story
What can a 100-year-old dyed-blue blanket tell us? Plenty, if we have the right interpreter. At the Journey through Hallowed Ground Conference in Gettysburg in late May (2013), John P.
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The Iditarod: Also About the Exploration of Alaska
In Alaska today, the Iditarod dogsled race is celebrated as the “race of mercy,” commemorating the 1925 trip of dog teams from Anchorage to Nome. They were carrying life-saving serum to save
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The Hunt for Amelia Earhart
Numerous efforts have been made over the years to locate where Amelia Earhart’s plane went down on July 2, 1937. But few people to day know how very seriously the
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Frontier Living: Cowhands
Yesterday I walked over to my branch library and applied for my Los Angeles library card. I couldn’t leave without perusing the bookshelves, and there in the “973” category of the Dewey decimal system I found an illustrated book for adults called Frontier Living.
Call me “easy to please,” but I thought this was terrific! (I also loved the fact that the 1961 copyright pre-dated zip codes; the book was published in “Cleveland 2, Ohio.”)
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