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James C. Schaap

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His first trip up river

Just about ten years ago, St. Louis University, a private Jesuit institution, moved a statue featuring one of its own founders, Father Pierre-Jean De Smet,

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March Madness

Just so happened to sit on a folding chair set up directly beneath the basket on the north end of the court last week at

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Running Water

In a sunny sky especially, the huge sandstone cutbanks along the Missouri can be perfectly stunning. To stumble on them after endless hours of treeless

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Fannie Lou Hamer, and Me

Seems to me you have to cut LBJ some slack here. The man didn’t ask to be President. Didn’t run for it. Came into it

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January 12, 1888

Exactly 136 years ago today, a monster arose on the northern plains just as country school kids were about to be dismissed. The Initial brute

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December 26, 1862

The State of Minnesota wants a half-section of land in Murray County to become once again what it was 200 years ago, when only Dakota

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Wiltz, Christmas 1944

There was a lull. No one would have said the sudden silence was anywhere near the peace-on-earth promise of Christmas, and while it would have

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