Quixotic Joust

Abraham (Abe) Ruddell Byrd (born 1851) operated Stephen  Byrd's farm in Jackson County, Mo., at least until 1878, when he began to eng...

Blog readers have lives separate and apart from the blog writer, leading the readers free simply to wonder only occasionally what is taking ...

Our search for D. Harold Byrd's father's history has been time consuming, if not actually enlightening. Quite possibly not even Har...

Years ago the author of Quixotic Joust , Linda Minor, published a long, winding treatise about her analysis of the world based upon histor...

In a previous post we discussed D.H. Byrd's claim that he was a cousin of Admiral Richard Byrd, Jr., the Polar explorer of the 1930...