Most of us who have studied American history are aware of the Forty-Niners—those intrepid souls
As a writer of historical fiction, one of the issues I struggle with is how
One of the things I love about winter is peppermint ice cream. I’m not a
The emigrants who traveled the Oregon Trail arrived in the Willamette Valley in late fall,
The first President I could name was John F. Kennedy. President Eisenhower was in office
I’ve written about Dr. John McLaughlin in an earlier post. Although British by birth, he
For those of you who want an update on my writing about the Oregon Trail,
The new issue of Smithsonian magazine has a report entitled, 101 Objects That Made America.
This week’s haunting book is a novel about a privileged Englishwoman, Ursula Todd, born in
I’ve mentioned the grueling Barlow Road around the south slope of Mt. Hood before. Barlow