Did your ancestors fight in the Civil War? If so, you can inspire your family to become interested in family history by taking them to Civil War sites and to
Operational changes at Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, a park in southeastern Colorado that represents an 1840s' trading post along the Santa Fe Trail, have drawn concerns that the site is losing is living history programming.
Hervey Dix was not a native of Missouri, but during his duties as a corporal in the early part of the Civil War, he became the first casualty of that war in Adair County, Mo. He was buried in Kirksville, and after the war, he was honored by having a post of the Grand Army of the Republic in Adair County named for him.
Nearly 400 quilts were on display at the 41st annual Northeast Wyoming Quilt Show in Frontier Hall of the Cam-plex Wyoming Center. And each had its own story.
The construction of a memorial honoring Tazewell County s three Medal of Honor recipients could come down to the results of a ballot question next year.