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BUFFALO BILL’S METAL OF HONOR
Everybody knows about Buffalo Bill Cody. Here’s something about him that most people don’t know. And I’m sure it will surprise you. Buffalo Bill Cody was the consummate showman. Anytime he had the opportunity to get publicity, he took it…even making up stories about himself, and embellishing those that actually happened. But there was one […]
SOCKLESS JERRY SIMPSON
Any baseball fan knows of Shoeless Joe Jackson. Do you know about a politician who in the 1890’s was known as “Sockless” Jerry Simpson? In the early 1890’s the United States was going through an economic downturn. The western farmers were unset over low crop prices, high shipping costs and even higher interest rates. They […]
MESA VERDE
On December 18, 1888, the fantastic ancient Indian ruins of Mesa Verde located in southwest Colorado was discovered by Richard Wetherill and his brother-in-law. The Wetherill family had been ranching the rugged southwest lands of Colorado since 1881, and Richard and his brothers often explored the canyons and mesas for Indian ruins. Once, while looking […]
TIME ZONES
At exactly noon on November 18, 1883, American and Canadian railroads begin using four continental time zones to end the confusion of dealing with thousands of local times. It shows just how powerful the railroads were. The need for the time zones resulted from the problems the railroads had in moving passengers and freight over […]
TRANSCONTINENTAL TELEGRAPH
On October 24, 1861, the Western Union Telegraph Company linked the nation’s eastern and western telegraph networks at Salt Lake City, Utah, completing a transcontinental line that allowed instantaneous communication between Washington, DC and San Francisco, California. The first official telegraph was sent by California Chief Justice Stephen J. Field to President Abraham Lincoln, predicting […]
