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Isaac Werner arrived on the Kansas prairie without a horse.  While neighbors broke sod with horses, mules, and oxen, Isaac traded his lab...

Kay Williams sets up his model town In 1871 when the trains came to Rossville, Illinois, Isaac was among the group of citizens that opp...

 Angels & Ancestors Tree Every holiday season I invite our relatives for a visit to the Beck family ancestral home that my hus...

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.  Henry Ward Beecher   In...

Wild Violets The Rattlesnake Creek about two miles from Isaac Werner's homestead takes its name from the curving, serpentine course...

Newspaper image from the 1890s The invitation to my blog visitors to share Thanksgiving memories and traditions has resulted in a wonde...

The wonderful images in this post appeared in the County Capital newspaper to which Isaac subscribed.  While the images depict a traditio...

Place setting at Buckhorn Isaac B. Werner was a bachelor homesteader, and unlike other neighbors, he had no family living in the commun...

The American tradition of Halloween did not arrive in New England with the Puritans, whose more rigid religious beliefs rejected the Celtic...

The Plutocrat and His Toy (the press) From the time John Hilmes established the County Capital newspaper in St. John in 1888, the pap...

What That "Wave of Prosperity" Is Doing   "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentra...