by Jeffery W. McKelroy In 1830 under President Andrew Jackson the United States Senate ratified the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. The treaty between the United States government and the Choctaw Nation ceded 11 million acres of their land to the United States and began the forced removal of the Choctaw to Indian Territory, present…

by Jeffery W. McKelroy It’s a 9 to 10 hour drive, depending on your starting point, from the Cascades, east to Deer Lodge, Montana. The drive takes you through Spokane and the Nez Perce National Forest. It is truly beautiful. I wanted to spend more time in those areas but as I headed east, I…

You are a writer the moment that you say you are a writer. Then you must prove it. I went to school for 7 months to become an electronics technician but couldn’t call myself one until I graduated and had the certificate in my hand. I spent four years studying law but I never went…

by Jeffery W. Mckelroy When we think of the Old West and westward expansion of the United States, we seldom think of the Pacific Northwest. I think most people tend to think of the striking images from old cowboy movies of wide-open desert terrain and brutal heat. The Pacific Northwest is just as important in…