As soon as I heard about it, I wanted to see the Plains Indians special
I had another novel in mind for my last haunting book review this month, but
Throughout 1848, fortune-seekers streamed into California, even though the U.S. government had not yet acknowledged
This month I’m writing another series of book reviews on “haunting books.” I haven’t read
When autumn came to 1848, San Francisco was already a boom town and coping with
Word of the Sutter’s Fort gold discovery reached Oregon in the summer of 1848. Oregon
In 1971, when I was fifteen, I went on a People to People High School
As I review my novel about the California Gold Rush with my writing critique partners,
By the beginning of June 1848 there were around 2,000 miners in the Sierra Nevada
I deliberately keep this blog away from politics. I’m told that writing about a hot-button