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During the 1865 campaign in the Laramie Mountains in Wyoming (known then as the Black Hills), while escaping from a war-party, Dodge realized he had found a pass for the Union Pacific Railroad, west of the Platte River.
17 maj 2016 · The state’s most prominent resident artists included Bishopville guitarist Drink Small (b. 1933), an eclectic stylist of blues, gospel, and soul music; Pomaria vocalist Nappy Brown (b. 1929), a veteran rhythm-and-blues entertainer; and the blind Greenville guitarist Cootie Stark (b. 1927), an Abbeville native who learned from Baby Tate and ...
Grenville Mellen Dodge (born April 12, 1831, Danvers, Mass., U.S.—died Jan. 3, 1916, Council Bluffs, Iowa) was an American civil engineer who was responsible for much of the railroad construction in the western and southwestern United States during the 19th century.
His lifelong passion was the great iron road — building a rail system across the western half of the United States. It was this “small, very ordinary man” who was the driving force behind the transatlantic railroad.
Josh White, transitioned from a career as a traditional Piedmont blues artist to emerge as a unique and integral voice in the burgeoning folk music world of the 1940s, and in so doing played a seminal role in introducing new audiences to the blues.
24 lis 2022 · Rory Block remains one of the premier purveyors of acoustic blues. In addition to honors received over her lengthy career, she won the Blues Foundation’s prestigious Koko Taylor Award for Traditional Female Blues Artist in 2021 as well as the 2019 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Artist of the Year.
24 maj 2022 · Here are five things you didn’t know about Dodge: 1-General Ulysses S. Grant made General Dodge his intelligence chief during the Civil War’s Vicksburg Campaign. Dodge also led various expeditions and performed valuable work repairing and rebuilding railroads, bridges, and telegraph lines.
