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Life on the open road in the Dakotas
Part 2: Rapid City, the Badlands, and all that …
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Ben Justesen
November 2023
Life on the open road in the Dakotas: My visit to the Badlands and Medora, buffalo and all …
Part 1: Starting it off with a speech in Sioux Falls
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Ben Justesen
October 2023
And now, for something completely different ...
Riding the Death Railway in western Thailand--and surviving elephants and a bus ride in Bangkok
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Searching for the pioneers in my family's past
Part 4: The Maxfields reach South Cottonwood-- my great-grandfather, George Spaulding Maxfield, is born
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Ben Justesen
Searching for the pioneers in my family's past
Part 3: The other half of my father’s pioneer family: the Maxfields of Canada
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Searching for the pioneers in my family's past
Part 2: My great-great-grandfather Lars killed by Indians—and Great-grandpa Rasmus in prison stripes…
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Searching for the pioneers in my family's past
Part 1: Another side of the family appears
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Ben Justesen
September 2023
More tales of North Carolina's 19th-century African American legislators
Part 3: Members of the 1897 and 1899 sessions of the General Assembly
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More tales of North Carolina's 19th-century African American legislators
Part 2: Members of the General Assembly sessions of 1891, 1893, and 1895
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More tales of North Carolina's 19th-century African American legislators
Part 2: Sessions of the General Assembly in 1887 and 1889
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Ben Justesen
More tales of North Carolina's 19th-century African American legislators
Part 1: Members of the General Assembly of 1885
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Ben Justesen
August 2023
Sifting through the past for nuggets of historical truth
Part 2: I begin to answer all my own questions about George White … and solve most, if not all, of the puzzle
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