General

Day of Rest

"Captain Stansbury is not less scrupulous upon the subject of traveling proprieties. One of his entries is couched as follows: 'Sunday, June 20 . . . The camp rested: it had been determined,…

Ants on the Prairie

"[Ant] mounds were like inverted mild pans, six to eight feet across and six inches high, and often hels a fair amount of Indian beads about the size of tiny…

Local Knowledge

"I have always wondered why it is that all information extant on any given historic spot is always somewhere else and the immediate neighborhood is in complete and blissful ignorance."

The Element Most Essential to Survival

"It was on the freighting trains that Slade developed a fierce hatred of hose thieves–a characteristic he shared with most frontiersmen. On the plains the element most essential to survival…

Constructing a Cache

"'A proper place being selected, which is usually near the border of some stream, where the bank is high enough to be in no danger of inundation, a round hole two…