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Forum: Members Journal 08-13-2022, 08:18 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
Part I: Spirits in the Material World:...

Part I: Spirits in the Material World: Ghostdancing on the Precipice of History

“If the Indians had tried to make the whites live like them, the whites would have resisted, and it was the same way...
Forum: Members Journal 08-13-2022, 07:52 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
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How the West Was Lost: Those Who Tried and Failed to Save It

I certainly don’t have to explain...
Forum: Members Journal 08-06-2022, 02:45 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
As we approach our return to the unfolding...

As we approach our return to the unfolding history of the transcontinental railroad (forgot what you were reading, did you?) the state of all America’s railroads at the time of the Civil War, not...
Forum: Members Journal 07-31-2022, 09:44 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
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Crossing the Rubicon. Or, if you prefer, the Mississippi: Rivermen strike back

It was...
Forum: Members Journal 07-24-2022, 09:58 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
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Death on the tracks: early fatalities

In the very early days derailments were common, but as the trains hardly ever...
Forum: Members Journal 07-09-2022, 07:03 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
It must have been fun trying to get a train in...

It must have been fun trying to get a train in the 1830s and 1840s: no information on train arrival or departure time was initially available, no timetables, no signs announcing arrival or departure,...
Forum: Members Journal 07-09-2022, 02:57 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
Other railroads were springing up, as the Erie...

Other railroads were springing up, as the Erie proved the concept. The Pennsylvania Railroad ran from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, almost as long itself as its competitor (though strictly speaking...
Forum: Members Journal 07-03-2022, 10:52 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
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Telegraph (Rail)Road

An...
Forum: Members Journal 06-18-2022, 07:42 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
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A Country in Crisis: the Panic of 1837

Any new economy is going to be slowly rising on shaky...
Forum: Members Journal 06-18-2022, 07:24 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
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Chains of Misery: The Dark, Infernal Engine of Oppression

In a typical attempt to rewrite history, most, though not all, books written on...
Forum: Members Journal 05-29-2022, 02:35 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
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Chapter II: Driving the first spike: the long and winding road

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“The day is not far distant when the...
Forum: Members Journal 05-14-2022, 10:24 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
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Clara Shortridge Foltz (1849 - 1934)

Showing her streak of independence at an...
Forum: Members Journal 05-14-2022, 10:08 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
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Buffalo Gals: Women in the American West

Part I: A Man’s World: Where No Woman Had Gone Before

It took a special kind of woman to face the new...
Forum: Members Journal 04-13-2022, 09:49 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
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Narcissa Prentiss Whitman (1808 - 1847) and Henry Whitman (1802 - 1847)

As we’ve seen in the account above, husband...
Forum: Members Journal 04-13-2022, 09:38 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
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Spreadin’ the Disease: If You Build...
Forum: Members Journal 04-13-2022, 09:12 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
One thing that sometimes drove preachers of the...

One thing that sometimes drove preachers of the Methodist or other Protestant persuasion west was the increasing influence of Catholicism with the influx of Irish and Italian immigrants to America....
Forum: Members Journal 03-02-2022, 10:14 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
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Cowboys and Angels: Bringing the Word to God’s Country

In Ireland it was once said, and quite truly, that even the...
Forum: Members Journal 02-26-2022, 03:04 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
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John M. Larn (1849 - ?)

A salutary tale showing why a good vigilante does not make a good sheriff, Larn was elected...
Forum: Members Journal 10-10-2021, 10:31 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
William Carr US Deputy Marshal in Fort...

William Carr

US Deputy Marshal in Fort Smith, Arkansas, he hunted down and arrested outlaw Harris Austin, who was a Chickasaw Indian charged with murder. When Austin resisted arrest Carr shot him,...
Forum: Members Journal 09-15-2021, 07:45 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
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John B. Jones (1834 - 1881)

Another who fought for the South in the war, Jones was born in South Carolina but moved...
Forum: Members Journal 09-15-2021, 07:30 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
Raymond Hatfield Gardner (1845 - 1940) Who...

Raymond Hatfield Gardner (1845 - 1940)

Who ever heard of a lawman in the American West living to be almost a hundred? You would assume most if not all of them had short, violent lives, but this...
Forum: Members Journal 09-15-2021, 07:23 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
II: The Face Behind the Badge: Famous Lawmen of...

II: The Face Behind the Badge: Famous Lawmen of the Old West

There are names of course that we all know by now, whether through movies or games or television, or even an accidental or otherwise...
Forum: Members Journal 08-31-2021, 06:36 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
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Wanted: Dead or Alive

It’s interesting to note that there was a very good reason why this condition was often appended to notices...
Forum: Members Journal 08-30-2021, 08:18 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
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For the Badge: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Law Enforcement in the Old West

(Note: For this section I am indebted...
Forum: Members Journal 08-06-2021, 02:16 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,136
Posted By Trollheart
Hold your tongue man! You're such a heel. And...

Hold your tongue man! You're such a heel. And other shoe-related puns.
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