There is one active volcano, thousands of petrified
trees, and almost 300 waterfalls in
Yellowstone National Park.
Happy Birthday
American Factoids:
The first
western
saloons
really didn’t fit our classic idea of what a saloon
looks like, but rather, were hastily thrown together tents or
lean-to's where a lonesome traveler might strike up a conversation,
where a cowman might make a deal, or a miner or a soldier might while
away their off hours. However, as the settlement became more
populated, the
saloon
would inevitably prosper, taking on the traditional trimmings of the
Old West.
By 1884 the great era of the
buffalo
ended and nothing remained of the massive
buffalo
herds but piles of bones. At that time there were only some 1,200-2,000
surviving
buffalo
left in the United States.
Rainfall in
Death Valley averages less than 2
inches a year. There have been some years of no recorded rainfall at
all!
Built as the Willard Hotel, in Tucson, Arizona in the early 1900's, in
1948 the property was renamed the Pueblo Hotel and Apartments. The
sign went through various stages, with the swimming pool text and
diver added in the 1950's. This vintage icon of a sign in Tucson was
restored in 2012. Photo by Jeroen and Maggie Boersma and featured in
our new
Boersma Collection.
Did
You Know?
Spanish
Missions were not churches. They
were Indian towns, with the church as the focus, where, in the 1700s, the
native people were learning to become Spanish citizens. In order to become
a citizen, they had to be Catholic; that is why the King of Spain sent
missionaries to acculturate them.
Americana - From baseball to apple pie, Thanksgiving to
cheeseburgers, Norman Rockwell paintings to a genre of American music
having roots in early folk and country styles, Americana is all things
American. More specifically, it is those values, traditions, cultures
found within the melting pot of the United States.
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Through The Lens Of Fisk-
A native Texan and now longtime Oklahoman, David Fisk
is a retired newspaper editor, writer and photographer, living in
Edmond, Oklahoma since 1986.
Outlaws
& Gunslingers - DVD - The year was 1865. The nation's bloodiest
conflict, the Civil War, had just ended. It tore the nation apart into
North and South, Republican and Democrat. It spawned a new generation of
weapons designed only to kill men and it trained a generation of men to
kill other men. From this year forward for the next 35 years, the South
and the North would continue the war in the Wild
West.
Out of the devastated South rode the most famous of the outlaw gangs, the
James and Youngers and the Daltons. From the North rode the most famous of
the lawmen Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. All of these
characters would clash in the hills of Missouri...The cow towns of
Kansas...And the mining towns of Arizona. Towns such as Northfield,
Minnesota; Deadwood, South Dakota and Tombstone, Arizona would blaze into
American folklore.
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