The Adventures of BillyMax

In time for Labor Day, a  week after I left central Texas, I arrived in Marshalltown IA to spend a month with my sister -- and to enjoy a sh...

T he way of the Mormon travelers was not an easy one; they were met with animosity, fear, and just plain hatred along the way. On Jun...

Cartoon in Ye Book Of Copperheads, 1863 Copperhead, also called Peace Democrat, was any citizen in the North who opposed the Civil War...

IOWA AND THE CIVIL WAR During the Civil War, a disproportionate number of Iowans served the Union cause.  A draft was not needed in Iow...

HERE COME THE IMMIGRANTS!  Most of those who came after the land opened in 1833 were from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Kentucky, ...

When I start seeing Casey's General Store signs, I know I'm getting close to home.  But I was a little surprised on this trip ...

Set to the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy, John L. Campbell, a satirist from Marion County, Mo, 1839, penned the Honey War Poem --it definitel...