When Will Bentley was nine years old, he promised his dying father that he would take care of the family. Growing up quickly, Will provided whatever his mother and sister needed, whether that meant pu…
In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Texas economy collapsed. Confederate scrip was of no value and there was no Union money in circulation. It was hard on everyone, most especially the Confederate …
Eleven-year-old Axel Nielsen and his ten-year-old girlfriend Elsa Johannsen were happily chatting as they walked away from Winfield, Kansas’ one-room school. But their cheery conversation quickly ende…
