Review for Holding the Line

  Love Along the Wires #3 Holding the Line Jennifer Delamere Wagon Wheel rating: 4 Blurb: A widow at just 30 years of age, Rose Finlay is determined to put all ideas of marriage and family behind her and pursue an independent life. But when she notices a young...

A Trip to Yellowstone

In June, my family and I took a vacation to Yellowstone National Park with the in laws. It was the first time the kids and I had visited Yellowstone. We went for about a week and only saw a fraction of the park. We are already planning to go back in the future so we...

Review for Drawn by the Current

Drawn by the Current Windy Sage #3 Jocelyn Green Wagon Wheel rating 4 Blurb: A birthday excursion turns deadly when the SS Eastland capsizes with Olive Pierce and her best friend Claire on board. Hundreds perish during the accident, and it’s only when Olive...

Native Americans ordered to Sand Creek 1864

Modern day Sand Creek Massacre location, near Eads, Colorado On June 24, 1864 Colorado governor, John Evans, ordered the Native Americans living in the eastern Colorado territory to Sand Creek. Evans wanted to get rid of the Indians as part of his plan to increase his...

Johnstown Flood of 1889

Nestled in a valley 60 miles east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Johnstown, home to many steel workers, sat near the Allegheny, Little Conemaugh, and Stony Creek rivers. In 1840 a dam was built on the Little Conemaugh River about 14 miles upstream from Johnstown. The...