The perils of predicting the future…
"... it appears to me that he just as well link heaven and hell in the same speech, as Louisiana and California. I have never seen a man yet, among all the vast...
Category: The Bonanza King
Posts related to my book THE BONANZA KING
“I tell you folks that’s a lie!”
19th Century humor: "If there is one thing a Nevada miner reveres above another, it is to hear the truth spoken at all times. A few days ago a new preacher from...
Fear the Catholics among you!
If you were a native-born American in the 1840s and 1850s, you quite likely thought the massive wave of Catholics immigrating into the United States was part of...
Bonanza Queen, by Zola Ross
Two stars out of five on Goodreads. It wasn’t as bad as I expected.
1868 baseball advice (that is not a typo)
It was "the national game" back then, too. 12 pieces of baseball advice handed down by The Weekly Alta California in 1868.