John Tanner: Growing up a Captive, Part XIII
The Traders came according to their expectations and they had a good many Beaver skins, John Tanner’s family bought a bark canoe, a keg...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part III
The Indians paddled on, it was about mid-day when they landed in a wooded area, they sought out a large hollow log open at one end into...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part II
John had been kidnapped. He could plainly see his father’s house and they had laughed as they pulled him away. He hoped to find a way to...
John Tanner: Growing up a Captive, Part I
John Tanner was born in 1780 on the Kentucky River; He was a man who lived as a white boy only nine years, he was captured and spent...
The Life of Jeremiah Johnston: Part II
In 1895, Jeremiah Johnston was called to take a special course for the ministry and was ordained and assigned to The Long Sault. By...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XLV
Violet mulls and cogitates about the adventures she had and personal family events. She particularly enjoyed looking back at family...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XLIV
Like all of us, as time passed Violet ruminated about her adventures, she already had eleven grandchildren and eleven great-children. ...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XLIII
Violet was just going out the door when the phone rang, it was a hot day in August of 1981. It was her daughter-in-law Mardell in Orr,...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XLII
The first winter in Fairbanks were pedestrian for the Violet Kielczewski family. Violet enrolled her two youngest children, 10 year old...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XLI
After getting ashore and getting the outboard motors cleaned of sand and the evening meal, they wondered what challenges were to come. ...
