Author: theactivehistorian
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Breaking Trail: Jesse Stahl
“He sat on the back of a bucking horse as easy as you’d sit on a straight back chair.” Jesse Stahl was one of California’s best rodeo stars in the early twentieth century. He was a talented saddle bronc rider and steer wrestler. Stahl placed at or near the top…
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Pottawatomie County Museum: Shawnee, OK
Hey, friend! Welcome back to another post. Today, I want to show you around the Pottawatomie County Museum in Shawnee, Oklahoma. I visited this museum once a long time ago when I was in junior high. I don’t remember going inside the actual building, but I know we walked around…
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Breaking Trail: Nettie Hawn
Viola Janet “Nettie” Schiel was born around 1883 in Ohio. Her mother, Rachel Sprague was from Ohio and her father, Wendall Schiel was from Germany. She moved to Los Angeles at some point and married her first husband, Ralph Walter Long on November 22, 1900. She was 18 years old…
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Greenwood Rising – Black Wall St History Center: Tulsa, OK
Hey, friend! Welcome back to another post. Today, I want to show you around Greenwood Rising: Black Wall St History Center. This museum covers topic that may be triggering for some to read. Please take the space you need to process this history. Museum History Greenwood Rising opened to the…
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