On Assassination November 24, 1963 My first memory, ever, is a hazy image of John F. Kennedy’s casket lying in state in the rotunda of the US Capitol building… I can remember seeing the sunlight (or spotlights, not sure on… Continue Reading
What are the supplies that early settlers in the west, Mountain Men & their families, take with them to survive? From a letter James Fergus wrote to his wife Pamelia Dillin Fergus listing the things she should bring to Montana.… Continue Reading
Grub and Gear list for an 1840’s LDS family heading west to Utah Back when the internet first was breaking into normal life, I was friends with a guy who was very much into Mountain Man and Buckskinning re-enacting. At… Continue Reading
The life of the pilgrims in the Plymouth Colony in the new world in 1620-1621 was unbelievably hard and deadly but we preppers can definitely learn lessons from their troubles. Of the 102 people who went ashore off of the… Continue Reading
Clean, drinkable, temperature controlled water at the turn of a tap gets my vote for the greatest invention of human civilization, and the biggest driver of improvement in human health. If its delivery fails though, its critical that preppers have… Continue Reading
I know a sure-fire way to never lose your home to a volcanic eruption… don’t live downhill from a volcano. I’ve caught some flack from friends of mine who think my attitude towards the most recent victims of the Kilauea… Continue Reading
Today is Memorial Day in America, and today Spice and I choose to remember somebody who is long gone, but at least in North Missouri he is not forgotten. The solider we honor died during World War 1, and in… Continue Reading
Time flies when you are having fun, and I’ve been enjoying posting here on 3BY for a full year now, making this post my first anniversary post! When I first introduced myself here, it was as a person who had… Continue Reading
Wounded Knee. Most people have heard of it, but were I a betting man I would wager that few people in the prepper community have even given the thought of Wounded Knee or the “settlement of the west” the slightest… Continue Reading