Location of Ft. Keogh, Montana
Statement in question:
“Col. Nelson A. Miles established this new post [Fort Keogh] on September 11, at the confluence of the Little Bighorn and Yellowstone Rivers.”
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For those who write
“I do not so much write a book as sit up with it as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I enter its room with dread and sympathy for its many disorders. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.”
Read moreWest Point eye exam
While researching for an article on George Armstrong Custer, I ran across this mention of the eye examination the cadets had to pass if they wanted to attend the West Point Military Academy.
“Visual acuity was tested by having the aspirant tell whether a dime, held up fourteen feet away, was ‘heads’ or ‘tails.”
Read moreRunning down dinner
Runners have always irritated me because I’ve never been a runner and cannot believe that some people actually like to run. I’ve always suspected there’s a running gene missing in my genetic code.
However, stories of long distance runners do interest me – probably out of envy.
Read moreWagon Box Fight
Statement in question:
“U.S. soldiers circled their wagons together and held off the warriors with their new repeating arms rifles.”
Read moreA writer’s prayer
This is for all fellow writers, and those who are just beginning the journey:
Read moreStrongman competition
In the past couple of weeks we highlighted two nineteenth-century individuals who, I think, would have done very well in today’s professional sports. One demonstrated remarkable pitching control and the other had Olympian sprinting speed. And they did it all without training; it was just part of a day’s work.
Now let’s look at a group of eighteenth-century individuals and consider how they might have rated in a strongman competition.
Read moreThe Fleagle Gang
The three suns/sons of Kansas, according to some who don’t appreciate our history, are sunshine, sunflowers, and sonsabitches.
Falling under the SOB category, and rightfully so, would be the Fleagle Gang from Garden City, Kansas.
Read morePawnee runner
Frontier scout, Luther North, related a story about the Pawnee scout, Big Hawk Chief, who may well have run the mile faster than anyone either then or now. Here’s the story:
Read moreStrong Left hand
Could the Cheyenne Indian, Strong Left Hand, be the baddest “pitcher” of all times, one that baseball’s major league teams wished they could have signed? He probably would have shut down the entire MLB roster of hitters.
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