Friday, July 20, 2012

Boonsborough Museum of History

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Ranger Mannie, on his blog, My Year of Living Rangerously , has posted an interesting photo gallery of some of the treasures in the loca...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

The Confederate Invasion of Iowa

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The "invasion"? Really? The text of a historical marker in Bloomfield, Iowa, just above the Missouri border, reads: Site...
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Sunday, July 15, 2012

McPherson on The Rock

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I borrowed this from the Alacatraz Facebook page (yes, of course they have a Facebook page). Here's a letter from James McPhe...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Antietam from an Oktokopter

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. . . found at Brooks Simpson's Crossroads blog: This video of Antietam National Battlefield was acquired on July 5th, 2012 using an ...
Sunday, July 08, 2012

Friends of the Little Bighorn Battlefield

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A very worthwhile organization. I attended the annual meeting last month at the battlefield, and the highlight of my trip was the Friends...
Thursday, July 05, 2012

Little Bighorn Battlefield, 136th anniversary

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Some select photos from my recent Montana trip. These, and quite a few others (46 total) can be viewed here . Looking down to the scene o...

Review: The Long Road to Antietam

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A review of The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution , by Richard Slotkin. Found at the Lawyers, Gun$ and Money...
Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Battle of the Rosebud, Prelude to the Little Bighorn

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About a week ago I drove down to the Rosebud Battlefield State Park from Hardin, Montana—headquarters from my Little Bighorn sojourn—and spe...

"Brothers in Arms," by Terry Jones

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An interesting essay from yesterday's New York Times Disunion blog: "How two units, one Union, one Confederate, that fought i...

Some graves of Crow and Arikara Indian scouts -- Custer National Cemetery

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Sunday, July 01, 2012

150 years ago today, Robert E. Lee overreached

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Crazy Horse Sunrise

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Little Bighorn National Monument, Indian Memorial, June 25, 2012 [I took this picture last Monday, on the 136th anniversary]
Monday, June 25, 2012

Custer's Last Stand -- 136 years ago today

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"Can't we all just get along?" I snapped this shot of two agreeable fellows this afternoon on Last Stand Hill.
Thursday, June 21, 2012

It's a good day to die

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I'm getting on an airplane for Billings Thursday morning. Next stop, Last Stand Hill. Reports to follow.  "Call of the Bugle,...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Conan Visits Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum

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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Michael Fellman and Intellectual Bravery

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There was sad news Monday with the passing of Dr. Michael Fellman, of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. I never had the opportunity t...
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Sunday, June 03, 2012

The Great Plains Guide to Custer: 85 Forts, Fights and Other Sites

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Join us on June 8, 7:00 p.m. EDT, for a live one-hour Q&A with author Jeff Barnes about his Great Plains Guide to Custer (Stackpole...