Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Norton I, Emperor of the United States (1859)

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Emperor Norton I Joshua Abraham Norton  (February 4, 1818 – January 8, 1880), was a San Francisco eccentric who proclaimed himse...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

There are Monsters in Arizona’s Superstition Mountains

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The Superstition Mountains In the 1920s, two prospectors hiked into the area of Pope Springs to search for gold.   In the middle...
Monday, March 16, 2020

I Vow to Thee

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Inspirational words in the time of Coronavirus: I vow to thee my country, all earthly things above, Entire and whole and perfect, t...
Tuesday, March 03, 2020

Anesthesia in the American Civil War

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A Civil War Operation In 1846, Dr. William T.G. Morton, a dentist, introduced the first anesthetic ether.   Ether was first adm...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

George Armstrong Custer as a Sioux Chief

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Tableaux vivants were popular forms of entertainment on the American frontier.   In a tableau, participants make still images wi...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

Please Mr. Custer, I don't Want to Go

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“Mr. Custer” was a chart busting song in 1960.   Written by Al De Lory, Fred Darian, and Joseph Van Winkle, and sung by Larry Verne...
Tuesday, January 07, 2020

The Strange Case of Adolph Ruth and the Lost Dutchman’s Mine

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                                   The Superstition Mountains of Arizona The year 1931 saw one of the best known, best publ...
Friday, January 03, 2020

Are Civil War Battlefields Haunted?

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There is a huge body of circumstantial evidence of battlefield hauntings stretching back to ancient times, when ghosts were...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Weaver's Needle and the Lost Dutchman's Mine

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Weaver's Needle Legend tells of a fabulous mine in Arizona’s Superstition Mountains. So alluring is the prospect of unlimi...
Tuesday, December 03, 2019

The Lost Dutchman and The Lost Dutchman’s Mine

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Grave of the Dutchman Pioneer and Military Cemetery in Phoenix Sorting out fact from fiction is the great challenge for a...
Saturday, November 30, 2019

The Exchange Hotel and Civil War Medical Museum, Gordonsville, Virginia

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The Exchange Hotel: Gordonsville, Virginia Gordonsville Virginia’s Exchange Hotel opened in 1860 and provided an elegant stoppi...
Friday, November 29, 2019

Jesuit Gold in the Superstition Mountains

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                                                                                  Arizona Gold Although the story of the Lost Dutchma...