Sunday, November 25, 2012
Mark Twain Slang (1862)
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Mark Twain wasn't old in 1863 One of the things I love about writing my P.K. Pinkerton Mysteries is the richness of American voc...
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Monday, July 23, 2012
7 Tips for Writing Historical Fiction
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"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there" mural in Virginia City Nevada This famous opening line fr...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
5 Colorful (Modern) Characters from Nevada
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by Caroline Lawrence Every author of historical fiction needs some mentors, advisors and allies. Elsewhere, I have been thinking about...
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Murder in Carson City (1862)
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Andrew Jackson Marsh The period during which my P.K. Pinkerton Mysteries are set was a particularly rich one in Nevada history. Betw...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Saloon Archaeology Museum in Reno
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tickets from Piper's Opera House On the fifth floor of the Ansari Business Building at the University of Nevada's Reno campus is...
Monday, October 31, 2011
Twain's Bloody Massacre
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Insensitive, moi? Was a real life incident in July 1863 part inspiration for one of Mark Twain's most famous newspaper hoax articl...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Western Mysteries ABCs
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A basic GLOSSARY for British children reading the Western Mysteries who might not know what a Desperado or a Stagecoach is... or where Nev...
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