Badges That Won The West — Deadwood Marshal’S Badge The saga of lawless Deadwood began, appropriately enough, with an illegal settlement inside territory that had been promised by treaty to Native Americans. Once word got out that gold had been discovered in the Black Hills in 1874, the army was unable to stem the tide […]
Vintage Album Collection A lot of people these days are slowly getting into different hobbies. And one of the most common of all hobbies involve collections. People collect a lot of different things these days, and gauge the value of their collected items depending on the number of years they have survived as well as […]
The Ballpoint Almost Died I reached for it one morning last week as I always do–there it was between my cup of desperately needed fix of morning coffee and my stapler. There it waited for me to assign it a task to begin my day–my ballpoint pen. As always, there’s a check or some other […]
