Tag: frontier-nebraska

• The Fort: Part 3

  You might recall a while back I had a short entry in my blog regarding an exit sign along Interstate 80 in Iowa that read, Home of Harold “Pie” Keller near the exit sign to Brooklyn, Iowa. Well as we continue to travel across Interstate 80 to visit friends and family, another exit sign at…

  Mike Vermillion

  June 1, 2026

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  fiction, fort-mitchell, frontier-nebraska, frontier-soldiers, history

• The Fort: Part 2

  Please note, two major historical resources for this story are:  “Life of a Soldier on the Western Frontier”, 2008, Jermey Agnew, Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, Montana. “40 Miles a Day on Beans and Hay,  The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars”, 1963, Don Rickey, Junior; University of Oklahoma Press, Norman OK. The men formed…

  Mike Vermillion

  May 30, 2026

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  civil-war, fort-mitchell, frontier-nebraska, history, military, military-history, nebraska-frontier-historical-fiction, travel