Driven by the Past

Oregon National Historic Trail from Independence, Missouri through Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon. On our Interstate highways, we...

Minidoka National Historic Site The reconstructed watchtower at Minidoka NHS (Photo by Hunner) In south central Idaho, the NPS is r...

Arches National Park, Moab, Utah Delicate Arch (Photo by Hunner) I usually write histories from documents, oral history interview...

Sand Creek Massacre  After I visited Bent’s Old Fort, I drove north some seventy miles to one of the most shocking events of the Indian...

Along the Santa Fe National Historic Trail I became a historian because of the Santa Fe Trail. As a teenager, I hiked fifty miles of th...