by  Tom Goodman Just south of Granbury, Texas, the Brazos River curls into a horseshoe and nearly closes on itself, leaving a wide piece o...

        Jeremiah Lanphier, a name no one recalls outside of Bible scholars. Born in Coxsackie, New York in 1809 to a farming family. At 16...

  By Catherine Ulrich Brakefield Christ said life would not be easy, especially not for Christians. “These things I have spoken to you tha...

Nelly & George McClellan by Sherry Shindelar Miss Ellen (Nelly) Marcy was considered to be the catch of the East Coast in the mid and la...

County map of California, 1860, by S.A. Mitchell, Jr., Atlas map There was a town called Washington located across the Sacramento River from...