Emma Coger purchased a first-class ticket, including breakfast, on a Mississippi River steamer bound for Keokuk, Iowa.
James C. SchaapFebruary 4, 2022
We watched him shave--at least I did. I mean, I didn't stand there gawking like some silly ten-year-old idiot, but…
James C. SchaapJanuary 7, 2022
Okay, this little story feels for all the world like urban myth, but some stories just beg to be told…
James C. SchaapDecember 24, 2021
Men, women, and children huddled in covered wagons crossing endless prairie seem to beckon all by themselves some hovering, mounted…
James C. SchaapDecember 10, 2021
Nobody gets paid. Let’s get that out of the way. A goodly number of us do commendable and even exhausting…
James C. SchaapNovember 26, 2021
I don't mean this to sound like a "dance macabre," an old late-medieval allegory of death. I swear it wasn't.…
James C. SchaapNovember 19, 2021
If you're a prairie kind of person, some ordinary flat-lander, and if you consider Iowa's rolling landscape as the very…
James C. SchaapNovember 5, 2021
Part of the shock that first morning at a rural medical clinic in Ghana grew from my innocence and perhaps…
James C. SchaapOctober 8, 2021
Her apparel suggested a sect I didn't recognize. Her husband wore a great bushy beard. He appeared to be a…
James C. SchaapSeptember 24, 2021
