One of the places that my husband, mother-in-law, and I visited in California in June
As I write my fourth historical novel about the West, I’m finding more and more
A few weeks ago, my husband and I were driving through Saline County in the
I’ve written before (see here and here) about Jesse Applegate, who was part of the
I’ve written before about the Great Migration of 1843—the first large wagon train along the
Kansas City is home to the National World War I Museum and Memorial, which is,
I never knew my great-grandmother Cecelia Ryan Strachan, my maternal grandmother’s mother. In fact, Cecelia
A few nights ago I was awake in the middle of the night, one of
I wrote back in October 2015 about the Oregon land laws in the 1840s, and
My current work-in-progress takes place mostly in the Oregon City area, beginning in October 1850.