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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

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 won't, but that d...

Twelfth and Race

Life takes a strange turn when Richard Allan Gordon, thirty years old and as white as they come, ...

Stolen Horses

McDermot, Nebraska, is a pleasant, scenic western cattle town situated in the Pawnee River valley...

Days Are Gods

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

From Society Page to Front Page

Eileen M. Wirth never set out to be a groundbreaker for women in journalism, but if she wanted to...

George Norris, Going Home

After forty years of congressional service, five terms in the House and five in the Senate, Georg...

Katie Gale

A gravestone, a mention in local archives, stories still handed down around Oyster Bay: the outli...

Haven’s Wake

Early July, and the corn in eastern Nebraska stands ten feet tall; after a near-decade of drought...

Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment

An unheralded military hero, Charles Young (1864-1922) was the third black graduate of West Point...

Wyoming Folklore

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