In mid-October 1880, an early blizzard caught the Dakota Territory by surprise. Unbeknownst to the region’s thousands of new settlers, including a 14-year-old girl named Laura, this was the beginning of one of the most punishing winters in American history. Six months of incessant snowfall crippled fledgling pioneer communities like De Smet, home to Laura […]| The History Bandits
Since its dedication in 1831, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts has welcomed visitors to its many thresholds. It has most principally separated the living from the dead, as the country’s first cemetery. Americans beforehand had buried their dead in church graveyards and municipal burial grounds located within city limits. Such plots became overly expensive, […]| The History Bandits