Archive for February, 2009
Combine love of Old West with modern Google Maps for fun, information
I was just playing around and found a great way to combine love of the Old West with modern, high-tech Google Maps functions for some fun and useful information.
If you haven’t used Google Maps, especially the new “Street View” function, you really need to give it a try. I just looked up “Gold Hill, Colorado” on Google Maps. One of the options I saw was “Street View.” I clicked on that and suddenly found myself traveling along Gold Hill Road at road level, looking through the trees and roadside rocks as I approached Main Street in this little Colorado “ghost town.”
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How much is a ‘bit’ in money?
A recent visitor to our site was asking an interesting question about the Old West — “How much is a bit in money?” I did some digging around to try to find an answer related to the Old West. Here’s what I came up with:
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Power outages remind us of pioneer ‘lighting’ in the Old West
In recent weeks, literally MILLIONS of folks throughout the Great Plains, Midwest, and Eastern states have spent a lot of nights in the dark (and cold, in many cases) because of storms that caused massive power outages.
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