A Calvinist witch doctor haunted the reformed areas of Siouxland.

Jim Schaap finds himself naked with an audience.

Jim Schaap meditates upon the tree Anne Frank observed outside her window as he lays upon his hospital bed watching a maple.

Jim Schaap, caught by the image of a falling barn, imagines the pasts that are beyond recall and remembers that pasts that are difficult to confront.

When farmers kidnapped a judge, outside agitators like Mother Bloor were blamed.

When the great blizzard of 1888 swept the plains, hundreds of settlers died. No indigenous lives were reported lost.

The events at Slaughter Slough

Stories from the survivors of the 1888 Children's Blizzard.

When the war came to a brief lull in Luxembourg, two GIs came up with a plan to bring a small bit of joy to the long-suffering children.