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July 1851: A Month That Changed the Denny Party’s Future
By late July 1851, the Denny Party had been on the Oregon Trail for more
July 22, 2026
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By late July 1851, the Denny Party had been on the Oregon Trail for more
It’s been a couple of months since I wrote about my work-in-progress. The good news
Last Saturday was our nation’s 250th birthday. Along with many other people, I’ve been thinking
As I sat in the dentist’s office a couple of weeks ago waiting for the
It seems appropriate that on this Labor Day I am updating you on my most
I attended the Historical Novel Society North America conference last week. Unfortunately, I was not
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One of my goals for 2020 is to research Oregon history for my next historical
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Many thanks to those of you who have written comments on my earlier posts or
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I’ve written before (see here and here) about how glad I am that my children spent
I wrote last December of a muddled Christmas story about Super-Jesus that was told in
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As I wrote last month, the California Gold Rush began in late January 1848 when
I wrote last week about National Library Week, and I announced that the Mid-Continent Public
J.G. Burdette, who blogs at Map of Time: A Trip into the Past, tagged me