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Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment

An unheralded military hero, Charles Young (1864OCo1922) was the third black graduate of West Poi...

Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus

Light on the Prairie

Once President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted 160 acres of free land to ...

Days Are Gods

"e;I called the bishop of the local ward, and he put the date of your move into the church bu...

Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment

Army Historical Foundation's 2010 Distinguished Writing Award, finalist, biography category"...

Wyoming Folklore

In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order crea...

It’s Not Going to Kill You, and Other Stories

“It’s not going to kill you,” a mother tells her protesting child. And maybe it...

Scoreboard, Baby

The adjectives associated with the University of Washington’s 2000 football season—my...

Up from These Hills

Born into a storied but impoverished family on the reservation of the Eastern Band of Cherokee In...

Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution

The inventor, the ladies' man, the affable diplomat, and the purveyor of pithy homespun wisdom: w...

Beneath Blossom Rain

In a remote kingdom hidden in the Himalayas, there is a trail said to be the toughest trek in the...

Double Life

There is no denying it: motherhood splits a woman's life forever, into a before and an after. To ...