Tag 1870s
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.
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