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1840s Guides for Travel on the Oregon Trail
Starting with the Great Migration of 1843, thousands of emigrants set out on the 2000-mile
October 22, 2025
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Starting with the Great Migration of 1843, thousands of emigrants set out on the 2000-mile
It’s mid-October, and for the last couple of weeks I’ve been noticing leaves. Washington State
For over fifteen years, I’ve been following the Write on the Sound (WOTS) conference sponsored
Many of my posts over the last couple of months have been dark and dreary
There are two landmarks in Kansas City named after city benefactors Ewing and Muriel Kauffman.
I’ve written before about the importance of reading in my family when I was growing
Forgive me one more birthday story. After this post, I’ll move on with my year.
Late last month, my husband, another couple, and I went to the Strategic Air Command
Both my dad and my mother’s father took lots of pictures over the years. As
When I retired several years ago, I told myself I wouldn’t sit around doing crossword
As a writer of historical fiction, one of the issues I struggle with is how
One of the topics I’ve had to research for my work-in-progress is the mining laws
The fictional family in my work-in-progress lives in a large house in Portland, Oregon. They
In my gratitude list, I mentioned the support of colleagues and mentors as something I
Friday evening has always been the time I saved for my own enjoyment. All through
Sometimes, I link to posts from this blog in my monthly newsletter. And sometimes, I
My paternal grandmother’s chocolate fudge and divinity were part of many of my childhood Christmases,
I wrote on July 15 about the Oregon emigrants’ experience sight-seeing at Ice Slough in
I read the newspaper differently now because I write historical fiction. Articles that I once would
The History Channel recently reported the anniversary of Jesse James’s birth in Clay County, Missouri,
I reported earlier in the month that my husband gave me an Instant Pot for