South’s greatest bear hunter helps Roosevelt finally bag a bear
For the past two weeks, our own Holt Collier, 59, one-time slave, Confederate soldier, sharpshooter, spy, and scout, and, now, the greatest bear hunter in the south, has been tracking bear on horseback with President Teddy Roosevelt and his entourage ...
Former musketeer gambles fortune on sugar
New Orleans, Louisiana, November 12, 1794: Wealthy local plantation owner and former French musketeer in the services of Louis XV of France, Etienne de Bore, 53, has given up his drought stricken, bug infested indigo crop and is gambling all ...
Freed slave gold miner murdered in California gold rush
Dahlonega, Georgia, July, 28, 1850: Wealthy freed slave, gold miner, store owner and industrious entrepreneur, here, for twenty years, Jim Boisclair, 46, has been killed in a gun fight east of Sacramento in California Territory. Based on his incredible string ...
American Contract Bridge League moves headquarters to Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee, November 28, 1972: The prestigious American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) officially moved its North American headquarters from way up north in Greenwich, Connecticut, to way down south in Memphis, Tennessee, at 2200 Democrat Road. ACBL opened its offices, ...
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DATELINE: Greenville, Mississippi, October 21, 1907 
For the past two weeks, our own Holt Collier, 59, one-time slave, Confederate soldier, sharpshooter, spy, and scout, and, now, the greatest bear hunter in the south, has been tracking bear on horseback with President Teddy Roosevelt and his entourage in the canebrakes and marshes of the northeast Louisiana delta, along the Tensas River. FULL STORY DATELINE: New Orleans, Louisiana, November 12, 1794 
New Orleans, Louisiana, November 12, 1794: Wealthy local plantation owner and former French musketeer in the services of Louis XV of France, Etienne de Bore, 53, has given up his drought stricken, bug infested indigo crop and is gambling all he owns on a crop he has never raised and knows little about—sugar cane. De Bore recognizes that indigo is a valuable dye plant and has meant so much to our local livelihoods most of this century. But, de Bore insists that indigo has faded dramatically as a means of making a living because of our “current two year drought in Louisiana and those exasperating insects that have feasted on our indigo plants for the past several years and have stripped our crops absolutely naked.” FULL STORY |
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