Forest Service fire lookouts are a hardy, self-sufficient bunch. In 1965, the Forest Service...
History
Forest Ranger Exam – 1925
Becoming a forest ranger in the early 1900s required an intimate knowledge of the land being...
Ninth Installment: More Fortune Seekers – Including Langford –...
Vigilante Days and Ways. In the last installment author Nathaniel Pitt Langford shared the stories...
Vigilante Days and Ways – Eighth Installment: He Died With...
Vigilante Days and Ways. In the last installment we were introduced to Boone Helm, “one of those...
Vigilante Days and Ways – Seventh Installment: One Outlaw...
Vigilante Days and Ways. Miners keep stampeding to the next, more promising placer, always seeking...
Vigilante Days and Ways – Sixth Installment: Sixth...
Vigilante Days and Ways. Lewiston has taken the law into its own hands, summarily hanging three...
How the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings Turned Baseball into a...
A Harper’s Weekly drawing of a game between the Red Stockings and the Brooklyn Atlantics. New York...
The History of Using Ether in Surgery
The surprising (and Long) story of the first use of ether in surgery Illustration of Crawford Long...
Vigilante Days and Ways – Fifth Installment: The First...
Vigilante Days and Ways. By now, author Nathaniel Pitt Langford has described what life was like...
Vigilante Days and Ways – Fourth Installment: Florence and...
Vigilante Days and Ways. Author Nathaniel Pitt Langford earlier introduced us to Lewiston, the...