Eric Rossborough
January 26, 2022
Who is Liver-Eating Johnson, and Why Are They Saying Those Terrible Things About Him?
Tri Robinson was in his second year as a schoolteacher. He had overcome a learning disability to get through college and now…
September 29, 2021
Hal Evarts’s Skunk Ranch
In 1903, when Hal Evarts was fifteen years old, he and a friend made camp on the Arkansas River. “Fur sign was…
August 25, 2021
The Twilight Life of Charles King
Popular nineteenth century writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Mark Twain were so popular they got their own library call number. This…
July 28, 2021
Anson Eddy Takes Off
A Future Executive? When I was doing research on Anson Eddy, I found record of someone by that name working as an…
June 23, 2021
The Man Who Wasn’t Jim Bridger
A Well-watered Area Jim Bridger had seen the handwriting on the wall. Between the early 1820s and late 1830s, fur brigades had…
May 26, 2021
The Day I met Willis McDonald
Shortly after I started at the McCracken Research Library, our Director, Mary Robinson, came into my office one day. “Do you want…