It was a howling blizzard with below freezing temperatures and white-out conditions. My grandmother, crippled from rheumatoid arthritis, and her two youngest children, one of whom was my dad, lived miles from any neighbors. Dried corn cobs used for fuel for the stove to warm their modest one-room house were gone. The wind howled and […]
Kansas
Laura Ingalls Wilder, American Author
Did you read one of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House book series when you were growing up? Or perhaps you watched the “Little House on the Prairie” television show based on her life which aired between 1974 and 1982. There was only the enormous empty prairie, with grasses blowing in waves of light and shadow across it, […]
The Lone Ranger was Black*
Was the Lone Ranger modeled after Bass Reeves, the first black U.S. deputy marshal who worked thirty-two years in the Arkansas and Oklahoma territories in the late 1800’s? He may have been. History Is Biased “The Lone Ranger was Black: Reintegrating Minority Viewpoints into Historical Fiction.” This title intrigued me. I found this session at the Historical […]
