Volume 16 , Issue 4

NW Okie's Journey

While heading back to Vallecito Lake, Monday afternoon, after my post-masectomy physical therapy treatment (for shoulder issues) earlier this morning, I spotted these two eagles perched on the top of their dead pine tree, along County Road 501, at Vallecito Lake, North of Bayfield, Colorado.

This is just one of the beauties of nature we are privileged in seeing, experiencing in the Southwest Rockies of Colorado.

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Walking With Sadie

On this Monday, 27 January 2014, we had a cold, chilly wind blow through here this mid-day [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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New Madrid, Missouri Earthquakes (1811-12)

New Madrid earthquakes -- Three of the earthquakes were on the list of America's top earthquakes: the first one on 16 December 1811, a magnitude of 8.1 on the Richter scale; the second on 23 January 1812, at 7.8; and the third on 7 February 1812, at as much as 8.8 magnitude.

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New-Madrid, Missouri

Have you heard stories of the time the Mississippi River ran backwards in 1811? Most of you are too young to remember back to the earthquake of 1811, February 7, and the New-Madrid that were the biggest earthquakes in American history, that occurred in the central Mississippi Valley.

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Tecumseh's Comet & Battle of Tippecanoe

The 1811 and 1812 earthquakes were preceded by the appearance of a great comet [Tecumseh's Comet, America (or Napoleon's Comet, in Europe)]. The comet was visible around the globe for seventeen months, and was at its brightest during the earthquakes.

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(1811) 1st Steamboat On Western Waters Survived Earthquakes

It was during the New Madrid earthquakes, the first steamboat travel on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers took place. The New Orleans set out from Pittsburgh on 20 October 1811, bound for New Orleans.

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