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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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She had also a disconcerting habit of reaching up under her dress and adjusting something in the vicinity of her navel and of reaching down the front of her dress and adjusting her large breasts.
An oldie but a very goodie. The author of the beloved Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children’s books (amazingly still in print, hallelujah) marries and follows her husband to a chicken ranch on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state in the 1930s. She is not a happy farmer, and she writes of everything and everyone
Lagniappe Sunday
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Random Saturday
Still on the road, researching the second Harvey Girl novel, this was spotted in the parking lot of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A purple Subaru Forester, ladies and gentlemen. Plus…it’s irridescent. Inside the IPCC there is a cafe where they serve the most delicious Indian