by Sharon Hall | Aug 26, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
Cloverdale is believed to have been established sometime in the 1880’s. On May 2, 1882 The Critic (Washington, D.C.) had a story about an Indian fight at Cloverdale between Apaches and the Sixth Cavalry, led by Captain T.C. Tupper. One soldier was killed in...
by Sharon Hall | Aug 26, 2014 | Tombstone Tuesday
I just never know where a story idea will pop up. This one came from some bantering back and forth on Facebook between my brother and one of our cousins about the “Bootheel” area of New Mexico. Today’s article features one family who started out in Texas, wandered...
by Sharon Hall | Aug 23, 2014 | Surname Saturday
Who knew that a visit to a prairie cemetery in West Texas could generate so many articles (and I’m not done yet!)? Today’s Surname Saturday article focuses on another name found in the historic Estacado Cemetery. Other articles related to this cemetery can be found...
by Sharon Hall | Aug 22, 2014 | Feudin' & Fightin' Friday
The Arkansas feud known as the Tutt-Everett War or the King-Tutt-Everett War or the Marion County War wasn’t over love, money, water or land – it was pure politics and it was bloody. The Marion County War might be the most appropriate name since it eventually seemed...
by Sharon Hall | Aug 20, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
Today’s ghost town was both the name of a Wasatch Mountain pass in Utah and the town which was founded at the top of the pass early in the twentieth century. In 1776 the area was discovered by Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, Franciscan...
