It's Harder Not To

I have made a number of posts regarding the nature of the books and authors that have made it to the top of the New York Times Best-Sellin...

My grandfather is the subject of a piece of flash fiction that I wrote and which now appears in the October edition of Rendez-Vous Magazin...

Poirot and Hastings. I definitely need to start a finger puppet collection. The Best Miss Jane Marple. Miss Jane Marple, Dame Ag...

I enjoy curses. I don't believe in them, that is, not in the supernatural sense. But I do find it fascinating when a statistical blip...

The representation in Congress is rigged against the will of the voters. First: The United States Senate. The United States Senate is cu...

My previous posts regarding newspaper accounts of Deadwood in the 1870s are available at these links. #I   Introduction. Deadwood, the S...

Previous entries in my series regarding accounts of Deadwood in newspapers. #I   Introduction. Deadwood, the Series and Contemporary News...

General George Custer, the pestilence who keeps on pesting, was the one who first discovered gold in the Black Hills. The discovery of gold...

Many issues of the first months of the Deadwood newspapers are no longer around. In this entry I will look at stories from Deadwood as rela...

In response to the Deadwood movie being released on HBO on May 31, I have been posting newspaper stories from the early years of Deadwood. ...