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July 23, 2023
ELKO – “Show ready! Load! Fire!”
July 9, 2022
Joseon dragons great influence over weather, state affairs
June 30, 2022
Baseball in Joseon: Part 1
June 25, 2022
Baseball in Joseon: Part 1
February 6, 2022
Chance of a lifetime: American fur traders in 1900s Korea
February 6, 2022
Chance of a lifetime: American fur traders in 1900s Korea
November 30, 2021
Postcards Home from Korea
November 27, 2021
Postcards Home from Korea
February 14, 2021
By Robert Neff Rae and "Betty" Woodford in 1924 at the OCMC. Courtesy of the Lower Family Lois Marshall ― date unknown. Wikipedia imageLife at the Oriental Consolidated Mining Companys [OCMC] gold mining camps in northern Korea could be extremely difficult ― especially for families. It was an isolated region with little interaction with the outside world leaving the mining community no other option but to entertain itself. As in any small community, there was an over-familiarity with one a...
February 13, 2021
Clair B. Woodford Whitley County miner in 19th Century Korea : Part 1 Posted : 2021-02-13 14:30 Updated : 2021-02-13 14:34 By Robert Neff Clair B. Woodford armed for hunting. Circa 1900s. Courtesy of the Lower Family Clair B. Woodford in 1917. Passport photographOn January 17, 1901, a group of young men from Whitley County, Indiana began one of the greatest adventures of their lives ― a three-year-contract as supervisors at the gold mines in northern Korea owned by Oriental Consolidated ...