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(Not Really) Roughing it on the Mark Twain Trail
By jingo, does everybody in Hannibal, Missouri, think he's Mark Twain?
John Colter's Favorite Mistake
Screeching and yelling "like so many devils," the Blackfeet grabbed at the driftwood raft hovering above the swimming naked man.
Following 19th-Century Ute Trails
Nathan Meeker raised a crop of distrust, anger and resentment among the Utes that led to disaster.
On Oklahoma's Centennial Trail
Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains, hitting the century mark. Oklahoma, a state for 100 years.
Civil War in the West
The Civil War was gonna be won in the West, Sherman told Grant after the second bloody day at Shiloh.
Loping Along the Guest Ranch Trail, Dude
The 4x4 pickup slides in the mud as Patricia Chesser and I head toward the branding corrals on the Burnt Well Guest Ranch outside of Roswell, New Mexico.
On the Trail of John Wayne
I'm in Madison County, Iowa, not to view all those covered bridges, though they are charming, but to pay tribute to a great American. Unheralded. Practically unknown.
Tracking the Great Bear
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark wrote often of encounters with Ursus horribilis (grizzly bears) as they made their pioneering journey across the Louisiana Purchase during 1804-1806.
Whiskey-Runnin' Whoop-Up Trail
The landscape, along the Whoop-Up Trail was "rolling prairie", cut up occasionally by collies [coulees] - covered with short, dried up grass and prickly pear.