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Introducing: Bill Davidson

December 31, 2019 Megan Kate Nelson 2 Comments

On New Year’s Eve 1861, William Lott Davidson (Bill to his friends) was huddled around a campfire outside the adobe…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: Bill Davidson, Civil War Texas, Civil War West, Company A 5th Texas, Confederate invasion of New Mexico, Fort Bliss, New Mexico Territory, Sibley Brigade, Texas

Introducing: John Robert Baylor

December 10, 2019 Megan Kate Nelson 4 Comments

When I started thinking about this project, I knew I wanted to begin The Three-Cornered War with the Confederate invasion of New…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: Civil War history, Civil War West, John Robert Baylor, New Mexico Territory, Texas, Three-Cornered War

There and Back Again: On the Awesomeness of Road Trips (and some stats)

November 5, 2014 Megan Kate Nelson 3 Comments

Along with chocolate frosted donuts at the local pool (a treat after swim lessons), road trips were the defining events…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: Arizona, Colorado, maps, navigation, New Mexico, road trips, summer vacation, Texas

Lighting out for the Territories

August 18, 2014 Megan Kate Nelson 19 Comments

Why do so few historians talk about the American Civil War in the West? And by “the West” I don’t…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: Alonzo Ickis, Apache Canyon, Arizona Territory, California Column, Colorado Territory, Glorieta Pass, New Mexico Territory, Sibley Brigade, Texas, Valverde
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