Tag: American West
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Fiction: Hooked Up
Buck followed, having nowhere else to go. He glanced around at the filth and total confusion of the tiny place divided by a soiled and torn old quilt. The walls moved with bugs in the flickering candlelight. Fred grabbed at Ginny, who wore a threadbare wrapper. She had a wonderfully white and soft-looking body, Buck…
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Climate Change: Rain Follows the Plow
In the mid to late 1860’s geologists, governments and folktales confidently stated that human cultivation brought improved weather conditions. Where water was scarce rain would fall and wells would burst with life giving force. This fiction stated as scientific truth (a grand delusion) led many a hopeful farmer across the plains into regions only occasionally…
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Books I’ve Known and Loved / Anything by Robert Utley
The West was no simple place. Robert Utley gets that. Soldier/Indian relations varied depending on the Indian and the soldier. Pride, love and ego, not to mention military orders, pressure from the East and teenaged warriors run amok made for complications and tragedy. Utley writes about the West like no other. Check out A Life…
Author Adrienne Morris 