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Articles by William B. Secrest
Building Bridges of Understanding
You are here Home » Mirror News » Mirror News - Volume 38 - Issue 3 - October 1, 2012 For the past three years the Henry Ford Community College Religious Studies Program, along with the Office of Service Learning and the Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation, has hosted a three day conference on campus, “Religion, Conflict and Peace.” This conference was instigated by and jointly orchestrated with the Common Bond Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering peace...
Dispatch from the Middle East (Part Two)
William Secrest, professor and head of the Religious Studies program at Henry Ford Community College, took the winter semester off from teaching to travel to the Middle East with his wife, Misty. The Secrests’ first stop was Beirut, Lebanon, and their itinerary includes visits to Syria, Jordan, Mount Sinai, Israel, Palestine and, finally, Turkey.
William B. Secrest: Shining more light on ‘Houses’
The newspaper’s article on “Houses” was very informative but I would like to add to it. Ameteck would not give the house away until the Heritage Arts and Science Center obtained a 501(C) 3 status from the IRS so their donation would be tax deductible. The “tourism” part of the name was added later in order to obtain the bulk of the funds used in restoration. I was the second President of the organization — I signed the deed but we had no money.
Wild West Book Review: The Man From the Rio Grande
The Man From the Rio Grande: A Biography of Harry Love, Leader of the California Rangers Who Tracked Down Joaquín Murrieta by William B. Secrest, Arthur H. Clark Co., Spokane,Wash., 2005, $34.50.
Isaiah Lees: The Greatest Criminal Catcher The West Ever Knew
Robert Pinkerton knew a good detective when he saw one, and in his opinion Isaiah Lees was the best of the breed in 19th- century San Francisco.With unprecedented police work, Lees put a lid on crime in one of America’s wildest cities of the time. If Sherlock Holmes had existed he might have taken lessons from Isaiah Lees, the master detective who broke the mold of the fabled lawmen of the American West.
The Calamities of Calamity Jane
‘It was just after payday, and she had been on a big drunk with the soldiers and had been having a hell of a time of it. When they put her in the post guardhouse, she was very drunk and near naked. Her name was Calamity Jane’ In May 1901 writer Lewis Freeman was rafting down the Yellowstone River when a minor spill brought an end to his sport.
Wild West Book Review: California Grizzly
What would California be like without the grizzly bear? Well, it would be like now. Californians haven’t spotted a big grizzly since 1926. A better question might be, What would California be like with the grizzly? Well, there would be fewer Californians, as grizzlies are mighty ferocious. That’s the tongue-in-cheek answer, of course. But there is some truth to it.
Grizzly Adams: Bear Man of California | HistoryNet
The onetime New England shoemaker ventured to California during the gold rush and went wild—hunting, trapping and befriending such grizzly bears as Ben Franklin, Lady Washington and General Fremont. He came from the craggy mountains and brush-choked canyons of the Coast Range, strolling beside a beat-up, creaking wagon. He was in his early 40s, but his white beard and long gray hair made him look much older. His buckskins were torn and dirty; a fur hat covered his head.
Wild West Review: Showdown! | HistoryNet
The dependable Bill Secrest focuses on the lives and times of six lawmen who tamed California between the Gold Rush and the turn of the century—John J. Bogard, Lafayette Choisser, William J. Howard, Hiram L. Rapelje, Emil Harris and David F. Douglass, likely none of whom is instantly familiar to the average Wild West reader. He succeeds with a dense array of documented events.
California Grizzly Tales
Hunters killed off the last grizzly bears in the state in the 1920s, but for centuries these ferocious predators had terrorized Indians, vaqueros, Forty-Niners and ranchers.
Nothing Left but Dust
Put me somewhere west of East Street, where there’s nothing left but dust, And the boys are all abustling and everything’s gone bust; And where the buildings that are standing sort of blink and blindly stare At the damnedest finest ruins ever gazed on anywhere. So went the verses by Larry Harris, written soon after a double disaster that all but destroyed one of the West’s social and commercial hubs and, indeed, one of the world’s greatest cities.
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