Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival (Five Star Publishing, $25.95) by Matthew P. Mayo is a novel crafted around Janette Riker, an actual Argonaut of ’49 bound for Oregon, about whom little history has survived.
Janette’s tale is presented in the format of the diary of a fourteen-year-old girl. Janette’s mother dies of disease and her brothers and fathe
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- The Constable Butcher
- How come C.S. Fly didn’t take Photos of the Tombstone Street Fight?
- What History Has Taught Me: Roy Young
- What was the Fare for Railroads and Stagecoaches?
- Cold-Blooded Conman
- Did Old West Shooters have Problems with Overheated Gun Barrels?
- What were Old West Hotels like?
- A Cold Ride into Hell
- How Many People Died During the Indian Wars?
- A Texas Dance For Johnny Reb
- An Artist’s Artist
- Miss Yakama Nation’s Yakama War
- Big Horn Getaway: Buffalo, Wyoming
- Along with Tom Mix, who helped carry Wyatt Earp’s Casket?
- The Road to and from China