Jim Ulvog – Ancient Finances

July 12, 2023June 6, 2024U.S. Civil War

Pay rates in 1851 on the Dakota Territory frontier.

Fort Union in the Dakota Territory was a major trading post constructed and operated by the American Fur Company. For a few […]

July 10, 2023July 9, 2023U.S. Civil War

Army pay scale during the “Indian Wars.”

Fort Buford, in what was the Dakota Territory at the time, was the major supply depot as the US Army deployed on […]

July 4, 2023June 6, 2024Uncategorized

What is a “militia?”

The 10 Key Campaigns of the American Revolution by editor Edward Lengel and a collection of contributing authors is a delightful description […]

March 8, 2023August 13, 2023Uncategorized

Some tidbits from the American Revolution.

The American Revolution is a delight to study. A few tidbits from Edward Lengel and the contributing authors in The 10 Key […]

August 17, 2022August 17, 2022Pondering

Relocation to North Dakota.

In June of this year, I moved my accounting firm to Williston, North Dakota. My wife and I have been wanting to […]

December 24, 2021December 24, 2021Other eras

Breaking technology news – Experiment to use gigantic kite to power a commercial cargo ship. Um, the Vikings perfected that technology 1000 years ago…

… And the Romans had it figured out 1000 years before that. Yet somewhere some technological wizards have developed an experiment in […]

October 23, 2021August 17, 2022Viking Era

In 1021 A.D., Vikings were living in Newfoundland, Canada

It has been long established that Vikings were living in L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland somewhere around 1000 A.D. Extensive archaeological digs in […]

June 28, 2021June 19, 2021Other eras, Viking Era

Another comparison of the so very enlightened and civilized English to those vicious, brutal Vikings.

The vicious behavior of marauding Vikings is well known. Everyone knows they were violent brutes, totally unlike everyone else at the time. […]

June 16, 2021June 16, 2021Other eras

A few indications of prices during the American Revolution along with travel times.

For a few quick glimpses of prices during the American Revolutionary War, we can glance into The Indispensable’s: The Diverse Soldiers-Mariners Who […]

June 7, 2021June 16, 2021Viking Era

More discussion of Viking era weapons, ships, money, and warfare: converting silver value point estimates to per ounce.

Previous post listed estimates of the value of silver during the Viking Age mentioned by John Kim Siddorn in his delightful book […]