Category: Western History
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5 Years of The Active Historian
Hey, friend! Welcome back to another post. Last month, we celebrated 5 years of “The Active Historian.” Five years ago on June 1, 2020, I made my first post as “The Active Historian.” This blog has given me so many opportunities to grow as a person, experience new things, meet…
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Breaking Trail: Pauline Nesbitt
Pauline Slovensky wasn born in Union City, Ohio on August 24, 1905 to Stephanus Szlovinszky and Maria Kocsco. Pauline and her nine siblings – Mary, Steven, Annie, Andy, Catie, Lizzie, Peter, Joesph, and Aness – grew up on a ranch in Wisconsin. Pauline was the second youngest child of the…
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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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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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