Jesse Applegate and the Great Migration of 1843
In May 1843 – 170 years ago this month – Jesse Applegate and his brothers
May 13, 2013
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In May 1843 – 170 years ago this month – Jesse Applegate and his brothers
My niece, a second-grader in a Seattle suburb, assigned me homework. She wanted me to
I received Plume, a book of poems by Kathleen Flenniken, from my daughter, who bought
Emigrants preparing for the move to Oregon had plan carefully what they would take. They
J.G. Burdette, who blogs at Map of Time: A Trip into the Past, tagged me
One of my favorite oases in Kansas City is the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. I go
In February 1847, while the Donner party struggled to survive in the snows of the
I wrote on Monday about the tragedies of Alzheimer’s, which are real and heart-wrenching. But
One of the challenges in writing this blog is finding pictures to suit each post.
In an earlier post, I mentioned my maternal grandmother’s thimble. Her initials – WS, for