Stuff in the Basement

 I must have a dozen different poses of this particular tree, an oak, I believe, although I've never been close enough to see for sure. ...

For some time now, I've been unable to determine what to do with the Wiseman story. I ran into it when I read the name printed on a map....

  The very first time I stopped at Spirit Mound, just north of Vermillion, SD (see the Dakota Dome on the horizon, an inch or so from the to...

  I don’t think I could go back to life without the internet this unimaginably huge storehouse of information that sits somewhere mysterious...

It's not a nice thing to say, but Ian Frazier's Great Plains makes clear, even if he doesn't state it outright, that the Great ...

I'm sure I'm not the only weary Democratic traveler, but it's fair to say that I'm among a minority here when it comes to di...

A whim brought that shirt to our place--clearly a waste of money, some might say. I was remembering my dad's working life, where it bega...

“For evil men will be cut off,  but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.”   I don’t know that this line sounds right out here i...

That afternoon, when the shooting ended, Army personnel loaded 39 of their wounded into wagons, along with their dead, 25. Fifty-one wounded...

  Somewhere on the peripheries of the council circle stands a man variously described as half-crazed or desperate. He was, by all accounts,...

Today, right behind you, you’ll see fenced-in enclosure where a granite monument, nine feet tall, lists the names of a few of those killed h...

It would be dead wrong to assume that that belief or any other created by the Messiah craze was the single cause for the horror that happene...

Think of it as a tawny ocean stopped in time, a vast landscape of grass, here and there mustache-like strips of trees darkening creek beds o...

  . . .the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. . .” Not an appropriate metaphor—not right now anyway. It’s been too blame hot. Tw...