I’ve been publishing books and articles about the history of the American West for thirty-five years, and have been reading historical fiction and historical mysteries for longer than that. Around my birthday in 2012 I put down the latest Alafair Tucker novel by Donis Casey and said to myself, “I wish I could write aContinueContinue reading “New Release ~ Dudes Rush In by Lynn Downey”
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New Release ~ Norske Fields by Anne Schroeder
“Write what should not be forgotten.” —Isabel Allende Norske Fields A Novel Based on Southern California’s Norwegian Colony As a young woman I saw a photograph of my grandfather, Oscar Olsen, watching county workers exhume the coffins of his six young sisters and brother from an old family cemetery at the corner of Moorpark andContinueContinue reading “New Release ~ Norske Fields by Anne Schroeder”
NEW RELEASE: Lillian’s Legacy by WWW Member Carmen Peone
Lillian Gardner, a healer in the making using natural medicines, is certain she is the black sheep of the family. In an attempt to prove she is of value, she sets off into the wilds of Eastern Washington and Indian Territory with Doctor Mali Maddox, an elderly Welsh female physician whose husband has recently passedContinueContinue reading “NEW RELEASE: Lillian’s Legacy by WWW Member Carmen Peone”
New Release: ANSWER CREEK by WWW member Ashley Sweeney
Nineteen-year-old Ada Weeks confronts danger and calamity along the hazard-filled journey to California. After a fateful decision that delays the overlanders more than a month, she—along with eighty-one other members of the Donner Party—finds herself stranded at Truckee Lake on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, stuck there for the entirety of aContinueContinue reading “New Release: ANSWER CREEK by WWW member Ashley Sweeney”
New Release: SLOW ARROW: UNEARTHING THE FRAIL CHILDREN by Kathryn Winograd
In a new collection of essays titled Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children, WWW member Kathryn Winograd braids together the pressing environmental issues of today with the sacred and profane intersections of the human and the natural world. She explores in the microcosm of a forty-acre high mountain meadow and its surrounding lands vast worldsContinueContinue reading “New Release: SLOW ARROW: UNEARTHING THE FRAIL CHILDREN by Kathryn Winograd”
NEW RELEASE: Mortal Music by WWW Member Ann Parker
San Francisco music-store owner Inez Stannert has a past that doesn’t bear close inspection, including running a saloon in the wide-open silver boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. But those times are gone, it’s now winter 1881, and her music store is struggling. Inez also lacks capital for her other enterprise: staking the business efforts of localContinueContinue reading “NEW RELEASE: Mortal Music by WWW Member Ann Parker”
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