Byers Didn’t Witness History – He Grabbed It by the Horns, Wrestled It to the Ground and Branded It with His Own Initials

William Newton Byers, that paragon of pioneer pluck, didn’t just move to Denver in 1859 – he stormed into that tent city, armed with nothing but a printing press and…

Gold Rush Roulette: Byers and Kellom’s Gamble on Frontier Fortune

It’s time for a tale that’ll knock your socks off faster than a mule kick to the britches! William N. Byers and John H. Kellom decided to cash in on…

Byers Was Not Merely “Involved” With Claim Clubs – He Was Up to His Eyeballs in These Quasi-legal Cesspools of Frontier Justice

Here we attempt to unravel the tangled web of William N. Byers and his dalliances with those frontier bastions of vigilante justice known as claim clubs. Are we to believe…

William N. Byers – The Nebraska years (1854-1859)

William Byers didn’t just become the first deputy surveyor in Nebraska Territory – he carved that godforsaken wilderness into a semblance of civilization with nothing but his wits and a…

The Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati Railway (CCC) Played a Role in Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral Procession

According to the internet, the locomotive Nashville, owned by the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad (a predecessor of the CCC&I), pulled the funeral train while it traveled through Ohio. The…

William N. Byers – The Ohio and Iowa Years (1831 – 1854)

William Newton Byers, that paragon of pioneer pluck, burst forth from his mother’s womb on February 22, 1831, in West Jefferson, Madison County, Ohio. This wasn’t just any birth – it…

The other founding fathers: the SUPERINTENDENTS of insanity

Picture this: While the rest of America was busy manifesting destiny, these thirteen madcap mind-menders were cooking up a scheme to rule the nation’s noggins. They met in Philadelphia, because…

Leavell, B S. “Thomas Jefferson and smallpox vaccination.” Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association vol. 88 (1977): 119-27 and a few notes

Little Turtle, mentioned in the main article, suffered gout and rheumatism before he died in 1812 Wikipedia says Little Turtle, who also met Washington and Adams, made two trips to Washington,…

Basil O’Connor (1892 – 1972) was an American lawyer

In cooperation with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt he started two foundations for the rehabilitation of polio patients and the research on polio prevention and treatment. From 1944 to 1949 he was chairman and president of the American Red Cross and from 1945 to 1950 he was chairman of the League of Red Cross Societies. That’s some timing.

I figure if something is that ugly on purpose, it involves some kind of drug-fueled secret code. Maybe it’s a song?

This is from the Polio Wall of Fame aka the Polio Hall of Fame and the pattern is disturbing. It is found on the outside wall of what is called…

Argyrodes pluto is a species of cobweb spider and kleptoparasite

Argyrodes pluto is a species of cobweb spider in the family Theridiidae. It is found in the United States, Mexico, and Jamaica. Argyrodes, also called dewdrop spiders, is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by EugĂšne Louis Simon in 1864. They…

Redhorn Lake (Montana)

Redhorn Lake is located in Glacier National Park, in the U. S. state of Montana. Redhorn Lake is in the Livingston Range. Glacier explorer Marc Ankenbauer called it one of the most remote lakes in the…