by Hank Nuwer | Aug 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
FINAL COPY Sons of the Dawn By Hank Nuwer A novel of Old Nevada z “Better...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Hank Nuwer A miner from Greece lay mortally wounded in the brush at Cordova on September 27, 1914. The victim called to a startled passerby. “I’ll give you five dollars if you help me to the hospital,” he said. The passerby...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
If the citizens of Cordova of 1911 were to adopt a slogan, it might be “Take this coal and shove it.” And shove it or, more accurately, shovel it they did—by the ton. The brouhaha began back in 1906. President Teddy Roosevelt’s...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
A Dirty Lawman Gets a Second Chance By Hank Nuwer Blackford County Sheriff Ira M. Barton was 49 when a photo of him with wide, hooded eyes appeared in a Muncie newspaper on December 29, 1931. A headline read “Jailed!” A...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
Seven to nine years ago, I commuted from the U.S. to Poland to court my now-wife Gosia, and she did the same in reverse, meeting me by turns in Alaska and Indiana. We were good friends for two years before getting hitched, although I assure you that we both were...
