Posted by Jason Hussong on Monday, October 4, 2010,
Saying that a place was an "Internment Camp" is really just a nice way of saying that it was a "Concentration Camp." Such was the case on the high plains of southeast Colorado outside the little town of
Granada. There, just west of town, was the Japanese internment camp from World War II known as
Amache - a home to thousands of Japanese Americans who
were literally torn from their homes in the west, and placed in supervised camps farther inland where it was believed they wouldn't be a thre...
Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,
"Now the Santa Fe Trail belongs to the keening wind. It belongs
to summer rains and to the fearful snows of winter. It is owned
by the prairie dog, the jackrabbit, the rattlesnake... And for a
brief interval it is mine, by adoption, since I choose to stake my
claim on a tiny fragment of its shining history."
When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821 the
Santa Fe Trail began to boom. Used, in parts, for many years previous by...
