Small Wonders
Monday at 7:44 a.m. and 4:44 p.m.
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It’s near to nine, the evening of May 2, 1879. The courtroom is standing room only. It’s the second day of a trial that pits a weary band of indigenous…
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“Warm County,” the Poncas called it--Indian Territory, what would become Oklahoma—didn’t sit well for the Poncas, didn’t feel at all like home, and…
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Forget every cavalry vs. Indian show you ever saw—get it out of your consciousness. The Ponca story is not like them.There’d never, ever been a hostile…
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To be sure, there was a good reason for the Poncas to cut the deal they did with the strange emissary who showed up one day from Washington. He’d come to…
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On a single visit to Lemmon, South Dakota, you can see the whole world. Seriously.You want joy? Once a summer they put a tent up in Lemmon—a beer tent—for…
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J. P. Morgan was the richest man in turn-of-the-century America. Edward Curtis, the largely uneducated son of a tub-thumping preacher, entered his…
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As late as the 1930s locals still found bones right here, on a flat spot of ground in what was once a wide river bed. Bones--the skeletons of ponies that…
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Listen, this is Believe It or Not stuff.But first an old story you might have heard.There's a guy, an old soldier maybe, some poor soul left behind on an…
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She remembers sitting up on the wagon and hearing the cobs bang, remembers horses going up the field pretty much on their own as Ma and Pa picked ears and…
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Think Julie Andrews. Think "The Hills are Alive." It's unlikely the Sisters ever cavorted so sweetly amid the hills, but who knows? They loved their…