User:Seesdifferent

Bio

Born in Grayling, Michigan in 1945, raised in Kalkaska and Cadillac, Michigan. Graduated from Cadillac HS in 1963. Attended University of Michigan, graduating in 1967. Attended Stanford University School of Medicine, graduating in 1972. Trained in Pediatrics and Neonatology at the University of Michigan. Served on the faculty of the University of Utah Health Sciences Center and the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center. Numerous published papers relating to neonatology. As of 2005, practicing in Dallas, Texas, where his children have attended Highland Park High School. Several presented/published papers relating to the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Interests (vide infra Wikipedia pages):

History:

Western and US History 1800-1930, smallpox and other epidemics, Crow Indians, rural American life, small towns and sports teams in Michigan in the 50's and 60's, Indian Wars of the 19th century, Pocahontas, John Rolfe.

Medicine:

Pediatrics, intensive care, neonatology

Wikipedia pages to which I have contributed:

• Battle of the Little Bighorn. Entirely too much savage criticism of amateur historians by other amateur historians, many of whom have some sort of historical crush on or rabid hatred of George Armstrong Custer.
• Northern Pacific Railway. The history of the West is the history of the railroads and the ownership of water. Huge fortunes were won and lost as the fortunes of this company rose and fell.
• Peter Thompson. A fascinating man who enlisted in the cavalry as a lark, and escaped Custer's fate at the Little Bighorn by accident. He wrote a confused history of the battle, which brought him public denunciation by historians and comrades in arms. A careful analysis of his account is forthcoming.
• Medal of Honor. Nothing "Congressional" about it. Like many decorations and honors, seems to have little in the way of objective standards, and may create more hard feelings than glory.
• Esophageal atresia. A birth defect in which the esophagus does not connect with the stomach; often associated with other defects.
• Respiratory distress syndrome. Common cause of illness in preterm infants.
• Northern Securities Company. Probably the ultimate in US monopolies, involved the richest of the rich, and tried to gouge the hardest working.
• Curley. A young Crow whose accounts of the Battle of the Little Bighorn have confounded historians for 125 years. An analysis of his stories is forthcoming.
• Alzada. A small community founded largely by immigrant homesteaders in the 1880's, near the Little Missouri River, in remote southeastern Montana.
• Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation (Arikara section). A fierce tribe laid low by the Nakota and the white man's smallpox, the Arikara allied with the Mandan and Hidatsa for protection, and scouted for the U. S. Army in the Indian Wars. They played a key role in the Little Big Horn expedition in 1876.
• Norm Cash Detroit Tigers baseball first baseman in the 1960's and 70's. A character.
• Doak Walker football player from Highland Park High School in Dallas, then SMU, the Detroit Lions.
• Bobby Layne football player from Highland Park High School in Dallas, then Texas, and Detroit Lions.
• Sherm Lollar one of the slowest men to play professional baseball.
• Al Kaline Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder for the Detroit Tigers in the 50's-70's.
• Charles Windolph Medal of Honor for service at the Little Bighorn, and the last living survivor, until 1950 that is.
• Walter Mason Camp Railroad expert and Indian Wars researcher, highly respected in each field.
• Pocahontas and John Rolfe and their son Tom Rolfe What a family they must have been, in the few months they were together in England. Ancestors of most of the founding families of Virginia (disclosure: including mine), started the great tobacco industry.
• Marcus Reno Custer's second in command, another life destroyed by the demon rum.
• James Watson key missing figure in Peter Thompson's strange account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Anybody know where he's buried?
• Frederick Benteen Third in command at the Little Bighorn, undermined Custer, drank, fished, lolligagged, but was a real hero after Custer was killed. Took heat for his slow response to Custer's messages, and possibly disobeying Custer's orders. Later denounced pretty much everybody, was an alcoholic.
• Kalkaska and Kalkaska County. My boyhood home.