On November 6th, I plan on going before the City of Sturgis and making an appeal that the City begins caring about our local history. Sturgis has a lot of great history, but the issue is that there hasn’t been a great push to preserve this history. When we lookRead More →
When I first started doing research into local history here in Sturgis, I gravitated to Poker Alice. There were a few reasons for that. One, I’ve always enjoyed doing research on women of the wild west. Their stories are often incredible, yet they don’t get the coverage that others do.Read More →
Throughout history, boundaries can change quite frequently. This can cause some interesting challenges when dealing with genealogies. And then because its history, things can get even more complicated due to various migrations of people, the various cultural enclaves in different areas, as well as restrictions placed on different peoples. InRead More →
Reworking History Often people imagine history as being written in stone. That history simply is, and that it doesn’t change. In part they are right, history doesn’t change, but our understanding of history does. This change in our understanding can occur in a variety of different ways. Often it isRead More →
History is often a mystery. It isn’t always a straightforward ordeal. One can almost describe it like a collection of puzzles. Some of the puzzles have all the pieces, and are packaged in a nice little box. Other puzzles appear as if a toddler found the collection and decided toRead More →
When I first got into the Poker Alice story, I figured it was an easy way to deep my toes into local history. I’ve researched and written a lot about other women of the old west, and expected some difficulties, but not what I found with Alice. Part of theRead More →