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- Buddies in the Saddle
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- Craig Lancaster, Essayist and Novelist
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- My Gold Rush Tales
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- The Entrepreneurial Author
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Tag Archives: Montana history
Where questions lead
I never meant to research Western cattle drives, but that’s where a simple question is taking me. In July someone asked if I knew what trail my Great-uncle Tom Johnson might have taken when he trailed cattle up to Malta, … Continue reading
Beer and Vigilantes
The goldfields of Grasshopper Creek and Alder Gulch was incredibly hard labor. All up and down the 14 miles of Alder Gulch, thousands of men broke rock, smashed the pieces, and separated the gold. Their efforts paid off more or … Continue reading
Putting History in Historical Fiction
“Don’t let facts get in the way of the story.” I don’t know how many times I’ve been told that. As if history didn’t count, as if we could just ignore what happened on the grounds that “History is written … Continue reading
On Being a Kindle Millionaire
I’m not. Far from it. Every time I hear of another writer who sold a million ebooks on Kindle, I look to see how he or she did it, because I wonder why them and not me? Here’s what I’ve … Continue reading
Dr. Jerome Glick — Surgeon to Murderers Part 3
At some point, Dr. Glick moved from Bannack to Virginia City, site of the great gold rush some 70 miles away, along with much of Bannack’s population. While he lived there, the Vigilantes began their search for evidence of robbery … Continue reading