Volume 16 , Issue 31

NW Okie's Journey

This NW Okie has been busy re-inventing herself in her aging years. Or should I say, "re-educating, re-entering into the art world of watercolor painting." So ... You can teach an old dog new tricks if you go step-by-step.

During our daily walks through the Colorado Rocky trails of the Vallecito campground, we have started collecting photographs of trees, skys, rocky streams and rivers for future watercolor projects. Besides practicing our watercolor wash techniques that we have not done for years ... since we graduated from college.

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Walking With Sadie

This week we have for you some history on early Oklahoma and the Louisana Territory, with the fight between the French and Spaniards.

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100 Years Ago 15 September 1914

One hundred years ago, 15 September 1914, it was being reported in The Bryan Daily Eagle, in Bryan, Texas, Tuesday, 15 September 1914, through the following front page headlines: Russians Were Only Laying A Trap. They say they invaded Prussia to call back Germans.

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Du Tisne's Expedition Into Oklahoma 1719

It was during the first half of the 18th century that France's most far-reaching activities, pushing westward into North America, and it was during a period the international conflict in the Southwest was being fought out between two nations with each trying to get control of the territory through control of the Indian and his trade.

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1914 South-bound Frisco Train No. 5 Wrecks

Have you read or heard about the South-bound Frisco Train No. 5, known as the Texas Limited, that plunged down into the river while running at high speed to make up lost time, due to floods, and plunged through trestle near Lebanon, Missouri in September, 1914?

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Trinidad Colorado WWII POW Camp

Back during World War II, 1943, if your grandparents or elders could tell you the story of German prisoners boarding a train in Boston, Massachusetts, only to be headed inland to Prisoner of War (POW) camps in the heartlands of America. More than 378,000 German prisoners would embark on similar trips in the U.S. during WWII.

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Medicine Lodge Treaty 1867

There were a series of three treaty that were signed in October 1867 between the U.S. government and elements of the Kiowa, Comanche, Kiowa Apache, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes at Medicine Lodge Creek, Kansas.

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