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1890. The lawless New Mexico Territory is overrun by criminals who steal money and land without consequence, and everyone carries a gun.
In Montaña Roja, robberies threaten Fred Harvey’s newest Harvey House restaurant. Disguised as a Harvey hostess, undercover Pinkerton agent Clare ventures west, risking exposure at every turn as she searches for answers the law won’t pursue—relying only on her instincts and her derringer to survive.
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The cowboying way of life.
I’ve been doing a considerable amount of research into life in the American West in 1890, which reminded me of these two great reads. I simply disappeared between the covers of this book. Hilarious, heart-breaking and oh so real, this isn’t just a story about a cowboy and the cowboying
Lagniappe Sunday
Quote: “Bullshit is language, statistical figures, data graphics, and other forms of presentation intended to persuade by impressing and overwhelming a reader or listener, with a blatant disregard for truth and logical coherence.” Dana sez, “Calling bullshit” is aka “teaching critical thinking,” which imo we should start teaching from kindergarten
Random Saturday
Welcome to the Land of the Standing Up Rocks, aka the Chiricahua National Monument, a collection of standing stones worn by wind and weather into weird and wonderful shapes. Those mountains in the distance are the Dragoon Mountains, where the Chiricahua Apache leader Cochise’s Stronghold is. He died there and