This week on One Shot at History, we’re trading Wisconsin weather for Arkansas weirdness — and there is a lot of it. We start in Little Rock in 1920, where two police officers on a routine patrol stumble into a ditch, see lights floating into the treetops, and nearly get shot by three women who …
The Terror of the Rock River An Ancient Legend of the Ho-Chunk and Potawatomi Peoples ©Carl G. Reinemann, One Shot at History Long before European settlers pushed into the river valleys of southern Wisconsin, the Rock River was a storied waterway — a corridor of travel, sustenance, and deep spiritual significance for the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) …
On the morning of July 4th, 2003, a retired truck driver named Art Rantala was in his workshop outside Mayville, Wisconsin when he watched three perfect circles form silently in a wheat field across the road. It took roughly twelve to fifteen seconds. No sound, no light, no wind — just the wheat flattening in …
Murder in the Big Woods Generations of Americans grew up with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s version of frontier life — and it’s a beautiful one. Warm, honest, and full of the kind of resilience that made the Little House series an enduring piece of American literature. But Laura was also a careful storyteller. And careful storytellers …
