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Fifteen-year-old Gertrude Hutchings sat on the edge of her sister Florence’s bed, crying.  Florence, a pretty girl of seventeen with long, dark hair lay motionless under a mountain of blankets.  A massive purple and black bruise on the side of her right cheek was the only color on her slender, pale face.  Her eyes were...

“Mary Ann Graves was a lovely girl, of tall and slender build, and exceptionally beautiful carriage.  Her features, her regularity, were of classic Grecian mould.  Her eyes were dark, bright, and expressive.” – Historian and author Charles McGlashan – 1880 Mary Graves Clarke, a dark haired woman with a pale face and deep age lines marking...

More than 150 years have passed since President Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed at Ford’s Theatre.  Tragedy ensued for many people with Lincoln that night in April 1865.  For example, Lincoln’s guest Major Henry Rathbone was cut savagely with the knife John Wilkes Booth unsheathed after emptying his Derringer at Lincoln.   Laura Keene, the...

In the history of the Indians, she and Pocahontas will be the principal female characters, and her singular devotion to her race will no doubt be chronicled as an illustration of the better traits of the Indian character.  —San Francisco Call, January 1885 The Bannock War and the Army Territorial Enterprise, June 5, 1878:  We...

More than 150 years have passed since President Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed at Ford’s Theatre.  Tragedy ensued for many people with Lincoln that night in April 1865.  For example, Lincoln’s guest Major Henry Rathbone was cut savagely with the knife John Wilkes Booth unsheathed after emptying his Derringer at Lincoln.   Laura Keene, the...

A fierce wind filled with alkali dust blew past Silas Toles, a Labette County, Kansas farmer, as he made his way to his neighbor’s seemingly vacant home.  Three other farmers followed tentatively behind him.  An endless prairie stretched out on either side of the weather-beaten building.  A hungry calf languished in a nearby fenced enclosure...

The Apache leader known as Geronimo stood near an overhanging cliff in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona studying the terrain before him.  His keen eye traveled across the rocks and valley below.  It was unlikely the U. S. cavalry would track the fugitive into the rocky stronghold, but Geronimo didn’t like to underestimate the army’s...

It was a gloomy, chilly evening in mid-April 1877, when Miriam Leslie, her husband Frank, a Skye Terrier named Follette, ten of the Leslie’s friends, and their families gathered at the New York Central railroad depot in New York City.  Porters serpentine around crates of fruits, vegetables, spices, and vintage red wine until they reached...

It was a gloomy, chilly evening in mid-April 1877 when Miriam Leslie, her husband Frank, a Skye terrier named Follette, ten of the Leslies’ friends, and their families gathered at the New York Central railroad depot in New York City. Porters carefully serpentine around crates of fruits, vegetables, spices, and vintage red wine until they reached...

The sound of children singing hymns filled the early morning sky above Natchez Winnemucca’s ranch just outside Lovelock, Nevada.  The sun overhead was already a scorching ball of fire, and more than two dozen students took shelter from the ever-rising orb under a well-built, brush arbor.  A steady breeze, like a hearth from a furnace,...