After the U.S. Civil War ended, my great grandfather, as part of his Union Army officer’s commission, was given a plot of land outside Dodge City, Kansas. But getting there from Ohio with his family was a grueling, months-long trip via canal boat and horse-drawn wagon. The opening of the trans-continental railroad changed all that. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe … [Read more...] about The Woman Who Civilized The American West
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The Healing Power of Sand
On Good Friday of 1810, Don Bernardo Abeyta was walking through El Potrero, about 24 miles north of Santa Fe, at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, when he saw a strange beam of light coming out of the ground. He dug with his bare hands into the sand and retrieved a crucifix with a black-skinned Jesus. Abeyta took the crucifix to the local parish priest, Father … [Read more...] about The Healing Power of Sand