Stalwart Army Sweethearts
Wives and families accompanying their military husbands during wartime is nothing new in American history. Martha Washington spent winter encampment with her general husband during the American Revolution. The wives of frontier U.S. Army servicemen during the last...
This is a Hold Up
The jaundiced characterization of a dandified, belt-wearing, young riverboat hand is vintage Mark Twain—and a puzzle. After all, men seldom wore belts to hold up their pants in the 1800s. Belt loops were even rare on pants until the 1920s! Men wore suspenders,...
Following an American Patriot
On this summer month, when most Civil War minds think about the events 150 years ago at a town called Gettysburg, I’d like to draw your attention to a great American, and a Southerner to boot. Sam Houston died 150 years ago, hated by practically every Confederate in...
New Releases-Historical Non-Fiction
Greenwood Publishing Group: The Civil War and the West by Carol L. Higham (September). Hill and Wang: Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life by Andrew Isenberg (June). Riverbend Publishing: High Country Women: The Ladies of Yosemite by Chris Enss (May). Texas Christian...
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