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North America » United States » Oklahoma » Muskogee April 30th 2020

FORT GIBSON The 1830s would have been amusing times to have gone forth in America. In 1821 the Mexicans finally kicked the Spaniards out of their country and began to move forward with plans to settle Texas. In 1824 America responded to Mexican encroachment in their own land, with measures to protect the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase lands with an army post on the Arkansas River. The river was the internationally accepted southern boundary of the purchase lands. At the time it was the furthest outpost of the realm. Everyone who was ever posted to Fort Gibson or even visited there got infected with malaria and many of them died. Back then Mexico did not know us very well and did not understand our insatiable penchant for greed. They could not inhabit Texas quickly enough with ... read more
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North America » United States » Oklahoma » Muskogee April 19th 2020

WE HAVE RUN AGROUND, CAPTAIN RANEY The Arkansas and Colorado Rivers originate only a few miles apart in the Rocky Mountains near Leadville, Colorado. They are, however, on opposite sides of the Continental Divide. Snowmelt in the Arkansas River drainage bounds merrily along until it flows into the Mississippi River and empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Snowmelt that finds its way into the Colorado River drainage maunders off jauntily through the Grand Canyon and finally empties into the Gulf of California. Sometimes vagaries of the wind are all that determine which snowflakes go where. Other vagaries were at work to determine the final destination of the USS Batfish. The Batfish, SS310, is a Bilao class submarine that was commissioned in August of 1943 and saw action in the Pacific during WWII. It is best known ... read more




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