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James C. Schaap

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Blowing in the wind

The land out back is vacant, all flood plain.  Nobody will build behind us, so we’ve got an acre of grass, native flowers, and Russian

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Silas Soule and Fortitude

[Two weeks ago, in a comment, David Stravers asked about men and women of conviction in America’s western saga. I responded with a few names

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The “Indian problem”

In his statement, [Tribal] Chairman Frazier cites the 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty that says “no white person or persons shall be permitted to settle upon

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Two Roads

I didn’t know her well, just enough to tip my hat maybe, if I’d ever worn one. Probably said “hi” is all. She lived on

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Extraordinary Love

When Sven Johnson, his wife and two children, left their native Norway, they spent the next eight weeks crossing the choleric Atlantic in a sailboat.

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Dear God

My granddaughter was, back then, just a little girl, third grade maybe, but one Sunday morning, I remember, she was already starting to wax nostalgic.

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Blessed Assurance

Years ago, when I was revising a novel, Romey’s Place, I didn’t know how it should end. What I knew when I’d started the major revision

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Prairie icon

Someday, I’m going to put this one on canvas. I know–it’s no stunner, but I loved the image before I saw it through the screen

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Beauty in Ruin

It’s still there. Maybe. I haven’t been out there for some time now, but as long as that abandoned place is circled by a substantial

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