Tag Archives: old west

Mail-Order Bride

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Caryn

As the West opened up in the early 1800s, the reality was that often, in those early days, more men went West than women…especially during the Gold Rush years. Once there, and especially as life became mundane from lack of … Continue reading →

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Old West Saloons

Posted on July 12, 2024 by Caryn

With the Westward migration in the United States, came the cowboys, and with them came the “Old West Saloons,” so that those cowboys wound have a place to wind down after a hard day’s work. We have all heard of the “Old West Cowboys” Continue reading →

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A Fun Sort Of Man

Posted on January 11, 2023 by Caryn

Bill Beadle became my uncle when he married my Aunt Virginia (Byer) Beadle. Uncle Bill was a fun sort of man who always loved to tease the little kids. That made him a favorite of all the kids. You could always tell when Uncle Bill was in a teasing mood, Continue reading →

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Mapmakers

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Caryn

The job of marking out the boundaries of a property, much less an entire nation, while maybe not a complicated job, a big job, nevertheless. The 19th century surveyors were charged with the job of mapping out the entire United States, Continue reading →

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A Stinky Situation

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Caryn

These days, we know that washing our hands and our bodies is important to good health. Of course, washing of hands cleans away dirt, germs, and bacteria, as well as many viruses that cause disease, but in the Old West, Continue reading →

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Lady Bandit

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Caryn

Pearl Hart was born Pearl Taylor in 1871, in the Canadian village of Lindsay, Ontario. Her parents were both religious and affluent, which allowed them to provide their daughter with the best available education. Continue reading →

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Loving Wyoming

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Caryn

My uncle, Bill Beadle was a unique kind of man. He loved all things cowboy, western, and especially the Old West. I suppose it’s possible that he was rather living in the wrong era. Continue reading →

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A Scottish Flair

Posted on October 14, 2021 by Caryn

We don’t often think of the United States having castles, but some do exist. Most are not considered true castles, but are rather country houses, follies, or other types of buildings built to give the appearance of a castle. In architecture, a folly is a building constructed Continue reading →

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Timelessness

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Caryn

My husband, Bob Schulenberg’s grandmother, Nettie Knox has solid ties to a number of things in history. While she was born in the West, in Clydes Park, Montana, she was nevertheless, a pioneer woman in many ways. Grandma was born on June 30, 1909 to Orin and Eva (Landis) Noyes, Continue reading →

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Lady Law

Posted on November 15, 2020 by Caryn

In the days of the Old West, women were considered the “weaker sex” and they were supposed to be cared for and protected by their male counterparts. Most women were fine with that idea, but there were a few, like Annie Oakley and Susan Anderson, Continue reading →

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