THE STORY we are given is that James Frazier Reed quarreled with teamster John Snyder somewhere along the Humboldt River after Snyder began beating his oxen with a whip handle. The days were hot, tempers short, and winter was soon upon them. It was October 6, 1846....
THE FIRST lesson of the Donner Party is to never take a short cut. Stay off the grass. Follow the leader. Do as you're told. Don't stick your nose where it doesn't belong. Keep as far away from Antarctica as is humanly possible. It's cold and miserable and there's...
THE YEAR was 1849. That's when it happened, in 1849. 1849 is all you really need to know. 1849. 1849. If you happened to miss that, 1849. San Francisco did not exist before 1849, give or take a year, and something about gold. Oh, haven't you heard? Everybody flocked...
“On that day I lifted My hand in an oath to them, to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, the splendor of all lands.” Ezekiel 20:6 AS EVERYTHING, in searching for truth about the world...
ORPHAN PROTAGONISTS have long bothered me, particularly in nineteenth-century literature. There is such an abundance of them. Dorothy Gale was an orphan and she went over the rainbow. Anne was an orphan and she managed Green Gables. Then again, Heidi was an orphan in...
SEVERAL NIGHTS of good conversation and beer at the 2019 Flat Earth International Conference in Dallas finally led me to begin looking into the mud flood theory. Just so we’re clear, I knew only so much on the subject as to begin my investigation with a keyword...
YOU WERE TOLD that the city of Chicago once held the World’s Colombian Exposition to publicly celebrate Columbus discovering America. The year was 1893, and the Great Economic Panic was already underway. Some 27-million people, a number equal to half of the entire...
I HAVE never been to Berlin, but I am told it is a mostly-uninspired city built upon the mounds of rubble left over from allied bombing during the Second World War. Makes sense. The Holocaust with a capitol “H” may be a fictionalized event, and the Nuremburg Trials a...
THE WATCHERS STOOD BACK and observed their loved ones, the giants whom they had begotten with the daughters of men, kill each other off in a war of the Titans, and then Yahuah bound them under the hills and the valleys of the earth, where they were to remain in total...