Belle Starr, Outlaw Queen of the American Wild West

elle Starr was an infamous fugitive in the American “Wild West” of the late 1800’s. She was connected with such famous outlaws as Jesse and Frank James, and was arrested several times herself.  She’s been credited with a long list of crimes, but was she truly the Bandit Queen as the newspapers made her out to be?

Podcast: The American Legacy of the Cherokee Trail of Tears

General Andrew Jackson won the nasty election of 1828 and was elected President of the United States.  At this time, over 125,000 Native Americans still occupied millions of acres in the American southeast – land they had lived on for generations.  In a little over a decade, thanks the Indian Removal Act, there would beContinue reading “Podcast: The American Legacy of the Cherokee Trail of Tears”