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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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If anything the wars seem a little tame by comparison.
Jon Grinspan, according to his bio, is the curator of political history at the Smithsonian, and it’s obvious that he has spent more than a little time in the archives. This book is an account of American political history between the Civil War and the First World War. If anything
Lagniappe Sunday
Today there’s only one story. Election 2026 I voted early on Friday. Here’s how and why. For US Senate– Mary Peltola. She has run a tremendous campaign that took her everywhere in the state and I believe she will bring that work ethic to the US Senate and not before
The Roadhouse Report – October 2026
Another snippet… There was one woman besides Clare, a woman a newspaper reporter would have described as “well nourished,” dressed in a long and somewhat dilapidated black coat with a deep red silk flounce peeping out from beneath the hem. She turned her head