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Refugees on the Prairie

December 2, 2018 by jcschaap
In the cold of winter, help as if from nowhere. . .
http://www.kwit.org/post/refugees-prairie
Tagged Mormon Trek, Niobrara River, Ponca Tribe

The Legend of Blackbird Hill

December 2, 2018 by jcschaap
Blackbird Hill, high above the Missouri River

A Siouxland story of love and loss 

http://www.kwit.org/post/love-undone-blackbird-hill

Chief Blackbird Monument
Tagged Blackbird Hill, Chief Blackbird, Omaha legends, Siouxland history

The Music of the Spheres

December 2, 2018 by jcschaap
So much alone out on the prairie. . .

http://www.kwit.org/post/music-spheres
Tagged Nebraska history, one-room school, Siouxland history, sodhouse

Living by faith alone

December 2, 2018December 2, 2018 by jcschaap

This Dust Bowl story begins in Siouxland

The Boa Homestead–buildings now gone–in Plymouth County, IA

http://kwit.org/post/living-faith-alone
Mt. Holyoke gradution, 1897
Tagged Caroline Henderson, Dust Bowl, Siouxland history

Tending the Trail

December 2, 2018 by jcschaap
Hundreds of thousands of dreamers moving west

http://kwit.org/post/path-dreams-and-ruin
Tagged Oregon Trail

Dream Whisperer

December 1, 2018 by jcschaap
Catlin, White Cloud of the Iowa nation 
http://kwit.org/post/our-landscape-inspired-dreams

Dred Scott

December 1, 2018 by jcschaap
Inside the Scott Apartment, Ft. Snelling, MN

The sad story of an awful decision

http://www.kwit.org/post/when-us-supreme-court-decided-man-wasnt-free

To Herman the German

December 1, 2018 by jcschaap
High above New Ulm
http://kwit.org/post/democratic-embrace-hermann-german

Tagged Herman the Germanh, New Ulm

The odd battle of Drum Creek

December 1, 2018 by jcschaap
The Osage give up their land

We don’t know quite how to judge what happened–good or bad? 

http://kwit.org/post/what-happened-drum-creek

Tagged Drum Creek, Indians in the Civil War, Osage Indians

Carry Nation vs. the drink

December 1, 2018 by jcschaap

A defiant woman and her hatchet 
http://kwit.org/post/carry-nation-prairie-radical

Tagged Carrie Nation, Prohibition, Tee-totaler

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