
Small Wonders
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Walking along the Missouri River Trail, Jim Schaap asks what those hulking piles of poles are for.
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Sioux City born-and-reared, the Ghosts picked up games with only the best local teams, but never let what happened on the field get too demanding or serious.
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Civil War veteran Albert V. Cole settled in Nebraska after marrying. In his journal, it wasn't the war that he recalls, but the fear of his wife leaving their home for the hardness of a blizzard.
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When Francis La Flesche was a young boy, he wanted to hunt buffalo for his tribe. As a man, he preserved his people in a different way.
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Dr. La Flesche Picotte was nothing like the stereotypes that haunt the American imagination. She became the first native doctor and tended to all people in need over a 450 square mile service area.
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Though the future was uncertain, and the past was all too present, Rosalie La Flesche's love of her people and her home was clear.
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After surviving a storm, a ship bearing immigrants sinks in Lake Michigan.
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A steamboat time capsule reveals the lives of gold rushers from the 1860s.