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02.03.2021
Love and Sorrow in a Time of War (1863)
Readers sometimes tell me stories that have been handed down through generations in their families. What follows is…
25.02.2021
Christopher Knowlton,Cattle Kingdom; the Hidden History of the Cowboy West. New York: Mariner Books, 2018.
Books about the cowboys and the long cattle drives that made them an enduring America archetype, beginning with…
08.01.2021
My First Epidemic
Before we were born, before the war, rains washed through the sparse topsoil and carved a great…
22.12.2020
Confession: We Have Two Dogs
My circle of readers is pretty intimate, so I hope I can entrust this secret to you. You…
03.12.2020
The Elegant Rescue
Emily rules. As in the case with all good dogs, Emily is now the chief regulator and arbiter…
22.10.2020
Low Country, Yellow Dog
We lost our beloved Labrador Retriever “Peachie” to cancer last October. For months we grieved, consoling each other…