Sunday, July 20, 2014

Did you know?


The manuscript for The Lost Frontier: Momentous Moments in the Old West You May Have Missed just went out to the publisher (Two Dot/Globe Pequot). It will be on bookshelves sometime next year, and I will let you know when.
It’s a nonfiction book, each chapter of which addresses an incident or event or person or place that was important in the history and development of the Old West, but is largely forgotten today. And a lot of it flies in the face of what you learned in school. It was a fun book to research and write, and I learned a lot in the process. I hope readers will, too.
For example, did you know that Lewis and Clark were not the first to cross the North American continent?
Or that the United States and England almost went to war over a pig?
Did you know a Texan may have taken to the air long before the Wright brothers?
Or that America was once ruled by an emperor?
All these and many other stories are told in The Lost Frontier. I can’t wait to read it.


8 comments:

  1. Rod, this sounds as if it's going to be one fun read. Looking forward to it.

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    1. Thanks, Tom. There are some fun and interesting things chronicled in the book. I hope I did them justice so readers will enjoy them, too.

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  2. Rod, sounds like a lot of fun. Some of the best stories are 'unexpected history'. That little known or overlooked aspect of some otherwise familiar character or event that has the reader saying 'I had no idea'. You don't run across them everyday, but when you do, more often than not it makes for a great story. Your book must be a treasure chest full of ideas. Gook luck with it.

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  3. I'm looking forward to reading it. I miss hearing these kinds of stories standing at your desk when we worked together.

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    1. I remember working. And I remember you being there, Joel. But working? Slips my mind, somehow....
      Nice to hear from you, and I hope you're all well. We miss you.

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  4. As a longtime teacher of the American west, I am looking forward to these two, sound like a lot of fun.

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