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

“When you get to the Visitor’s Center, look for the blue dress–it belonged to Judy’s grandma,” she told me. “Judy” is her friend. I’d just