by Sharon Hall | Jun 4, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Wild West Wednesday
This gun battle at Blazer’s Mill, located on the Rio Tularosa, is considered part of the Lincoln County War of 1878. The most famous participant of that war was, of course, William H. Bonney, a.k.a. “Billy the Kid.” Billy and his fellow posse members...
by Sharon Hall | May 28, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
This ghost town in the Coeur d’Alenes of Idaho, although once a thriving gold mining town, might not be worthy of a mention, but for the fact that Wyatt Earp and Josephine “Sadie” Marcus arrived there in early 1884 for the Coeur d’Alene gold rush. Titus Blessing,...
by Sharon Hall | May 21, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
Kimberly, Utah, located in the northwest part of Piute County, began to be settled in the 1890’s. In 1888 prospectors came to the Tushar Mountains to find a storied lost mine called “Trapper’s Pride.” It may not have been the mine they were searching for, but...
by Sharon Hall | May 14, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
Way back when, long before settlers began making their treks west, this area of Utah was along a route used by Native Americans as they made their seasonal migrations in the spring and fall. The first recorded European expedition was made in 1776 by Francisco...
by Sharon Hall | May 7, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Wild Weather Wednesday
On May 7, 1840 a massive tornado tore through Natchez, Mississippi. Just the night before the area on both sides of the river, Concordia Parish in Louisiana and Adams County in Mississippi, were drenched with over three inches of rain. With all the rain in the area,...
by Sharon Hall | Apr 30, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Wild Weather Wednesday
By the morning of March 24, headlines reported news of the first devastating wave of weather that had first impacted Omaha, Nebraska (see last week’s article). A tornado later roared through Terra Haute with at least two dozen killed. Even though the articles...
