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Truth is often stranger than fiction, or at least just as strange. In researching my first novel (about a young lady disguised as a boy), I learned there was a real woman who had lived as a man for decades. … Continue Reading →
Excerpts of The Novel Historian’s book, Transcontinental Runaway, describe a steamship journey on the Missouri River in 1871. The vignette creates a word painting reminiscent of Mark Twain’s circa-1856 experiences, recorded in his 1883 Life on the Mississippi.
California goes through sporadic periods of drought and flood. Learn how the recent floods in Central California are connected to the Great Flood of 1862.
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