1863 Murders at Fort Pomme de Terre after Sioux Uprising
This week marks the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the Fort Pomme de Terre murders. Union solders were stationed at the newly-built Fort Pomme de Terre, after the 1862 Sioux Uprising. Letters from homesick soldiers talked of the monotony of the isolated outpost along the Pomme de Terre River between present-day Elbow Lake and Ashby, […]
Farming Seems Easy
“Farming seems easy when your plow is a pencil and you are a thousand miles from the corn field.” -Dwight Eisenhower I laughed today when I read this quote. I’ve done a lot of research about early farming practices and immigrant life. My historical novels tell of the Herculean efforts required to get a foothold […]