I’ve recently compiled a number of resources on the Butterfield Overland Mail in Oklahoma into one page on my web site. Find it here: https://susandragoo.com/butterfield-oklahoma/
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The Illusion of Wisdom: Hiking the Grand Canyon
The latest issue of TrailGroove magazine is out, and with it my photo on the cover and the story of my most recent backpacking trip into the Grand Canyon. See it here (beginning on page 17): https://www.trailgroove.com/issue54.html
Preserving the Okmulgee Colored Hospital
In the early twentieth century segregation touched every facet of life, including health care. Okmulgee’s African American community came together in the 1920s to build a hospital providing care to many who could not afford it. With the advent of integration the Okmulgee Colored Hospital closed its doors, but it has retained its historic integrityContinue reading “Preserving the Okmulgee Colored Hospital”
Book Review: 2Up and Overloaded by Tim Notier
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The Long Road Home by Travis Monroe (outdoorx4.com)
Nice work by author and photographer Travis Monroe, photographer Jake Dragoo, and of course Bill Dragoo, and a few of my photos too, in “The Long Road Home,” featured in OutdoorX4, Issue 38:
Arkansas: Natural Treasure
Read my article, Arkansas Natural Treasure, published in OutdoorX4’s Issue 37, here:
New Articles Posted
Two new OutdoorX4 articles are now available on my blog: A Day and a Night in Chaco Canyon, and a build article that Bill wrote and I photographed about our Toyota 4Runner, with images from our trip on the California Backcountry Discovery Route. Here are links to each of them: Chaco Canyon – OutdoorX4 IssueContinue reading “New Articles Posted”
Right in My Own Backyard: The Butterfield in Northwest Arkansas
Above: Elkhart Tavern is situated on Old Wire Road in Pea Ridge National Military Park. Before Old Wire was associated with the telegraph, it was used by the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoaches on their route. Elkhorn Tavern sits along Old Wire Road in Pea Ridge National Military Park in northwest Arkansas. According to the National Park Service,Continue reading “Right in My Own Backyard: The Butterfield in Northwest Arkansas”
Exploring Roman London
Photo Above: On Tower Hill, this section of the City Wall stands at a height of 35 feet, with the Roman work surviving to the level of 14 1/2 feet, and medieval stonework above. The Tower of London is visible in the distance. With a week in London, one can barely scratch the surface ofContinue reading “Exploring Roman London”
Trahern’s Station
(Image above is Brazil Creek near the Council House site) How slowly the scales fall from my eyes as I try to see into the past, the obscurity of the obvious sometimes clearing and other times going completely dark as I seek the truth in this landscape aged 200 years. Both extremes, along with the continuingContinue reading “Trahern’s Station”
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