“When someone says, ‘He lost it all,’ they may be referring to Horace Greeley.”
Today, Horace Greeley is best known for his advice, “Go West, young man, and grow
“Sometimes you just can’t keep your feet on the ground.”
Is it possible to fly the distance of 1 ½ times around the world in
“He spoke to Jesus Christ?”
This is Quanah Parker, war leader of the Kwahadi (“Antelope”) band of the Comanches. He
“They don’t look like white supremacists to me.”
They’re not. They are Lumbee Indians from North Carolina. On January 18, 1958, James W.
Meet the Patron Saint of Writers in America!!
If you are a writer, you should pay homage to the figure on the right.
He was the hardest damn man to kill.”
He was James Brown Miller and he was a hired killer, from 1861 until he
“He toured the South during slavery days …. and he was black?!”
Hard as it is to believe, America’s first black celebrity was a magician, hypnotist and
America’s first female mayor
In 1887, in Argonia, Kansas, a group of men decided to ‘pull a fast one.’
“Who’s that behind you, Mary?”
After the Civil War, the field of photography took a deplorable turn. Many families had
“Where does the word ‘gypsy’ come?”
It depends on the language you speak. In English, the term gypsy was short for
“Talk about GREAT ‘Balls of Fire!’”
In 1958, while on tour with Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and The Chantels, the promoter
“Women can be successful business people?”
Far too often people have a Hollywood version of history. In Western movies, the streets