Greg,
You addressed this to Jim but, as his evil alter ego (makes me think of evil Mr Spock on Star Trek), I'll reply. I absolutely agree about the quality of participation on the Trans-Mississippi message boards. I've corresponded with Ranger Mike at Ft Donelson before. On the Indian Territory message boards, we have great researchers that occassionally locate records never known to exist before! There is so little available on the Indian Territory that these finds are pure gold!

Of course, we have to thank my double cousin Jim for creating these forums for us -- I would have never met the great historians and researchers and/or just folks with a common interest. I had the immence pleasure last Friday of a "history road trip" with Jim and three Indian Territory 'experts' which I met via the message boards.

Ken