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An Outlaw Turned Carpenter
It's time to meet the hero of The Carpenter's Schoolmarm (my current work in progress) and the first book in the Brides of Cooperton, Kansas series. You can check out the setting and meet the heroine and villain of this story by clicking on the links below. Setting...
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 herself...
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...
Forever Linking the East and the West
On May 10, 1869, the presidents of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads met in Promontory, Utah to drive the last spike into the rail line that would connect the east and the west. The project to connect the east and west coasts started 16 years before...
