Once upon a time, he shot at surfacing German subs in the North Atlantic, tried to pick off the crews who were aiming anti-aircraft flak

It’s a bit of an embarrassment really, or so I discovered. I’d never heard of the monument until it showed up on a local on-line

The whole thing’s a stretch, but what the heck–I’m lovin’ it.  Sheriff Pat Garrett plugged Billy the Kid, a notorious gunslinger, after hunting him down

Perhaps it was more typical than not–that night, I mean. The guy worked a high-crime district, West Palm Beach, where being a cop meant hot

If you look closely, you can tell it’s not the Great Plains. That big tree is too perfect; prairie trees get mauled regularly by incessant

There isn’t much we know about Aunt Gertie’s death. It happened on a foggy night in November, 1949, along a lakeshore cloaked in a mist

“What places do I really have to see when I’m here?” I asked the woman behind the desk at the Osage visitor’s center. “You must see

If the place sounds cliche-ish, you can’t blame Garretson, SD, because doggone it, not every Siouxland burg has a tourist trap built in. Seriously, Garretson’s

On my mother’s side, my Dutch-American ancestry has been here since before the American Civil War. My people were among the first immigrants from the