There has been a lot of talk, for very good reasons, this year about the 50th anniversary of the United States landing on the Moon. July 16, 1969 was truly a monumental moment in not only US history but for … Continue reading →
Visited: July 7, 2019 Louisiana and Montana are very far apart from each other but most of what is today Montana became part of the United States in 1803 as … Continue reading →
Visited:July 5, 2018 It is kind of funny when you start traveling a lot. Things just start to mix together. You would think having left the country I would have remembered that and wrote a blog post about it, but … Continue reading →
Idaho became a state on July 3rd, 1890. Idaho has peculiar history on how it became a state and even more so on how Boise became it’s capitol. US history in Idaho starts with Lewis and Clark passing through the … Continue reading →
On May 10, 1869, Central Pacific Railroad President Leland Stanford ceremonially tapped the “Golden Spike”and forever connected made the United States united. Before the coming of the transcontinental railroad it was a very arduous journey from the east coast to … Continue reading →
