By Bob Hunter
Road to Wapatomica
Sports Journalist and Author
Bob Hunter
Bob Hunter is the author of eleven books including Players, Teams and Stadium Ghosts, Bob Hunter on Sports, a collection of some of his columns from his more than 40 years at the Columbus Dispatch.
Bob’s Other Books
Players, Teams and Stadium Ghosts
A Hall of Fame collection of Bob’s best writing from the Columbus Dispatch.
A Historical Guidebook to Old Columbus
Finding the past in the present in Ohio’s capital city
Saint Woody
The History and Fanaticism of Ohio State Football
Thurberville
James Thurber’s Columbus was not today’s Columbus—or even yesterday’s
Bob’s Latest Blog Entries
Hanging with Lewis & Clark
Because of an upcoming trip to Oregon, I pulled The Journals of Lewis and Clark off one of my bookshelves with the idea of leafing through it and reading a few selected passages. I’m 180 pages into it now and showing no signs of stopping, even though I’ve already read...
How much for that bridge?
My first visit to the Roche de Boeuf interurban railroad bridge across the Maumee River occurred last year while I was working on Road to Wapatomica, A modern search for the Old Northwest. The bridge, which looks like it belongs in a photograph of the ruins of Berlin...
Death of Tecumseh Motel
When I first identified chapters sites for Road to Wapatomica, A modern search for the Old Northwest, Old Chillicothe, the once-important Shawnee settlement three miles north of modern Xenia, Ohio, was an obvious candidate, This was where prominent Shawnee leader...