HNR Issue 13 (August 2000)
Prairie Song
Kate Chandler flees New York City for the wilds of Oklahoma and the Great Land Run, hoping to escape a…
Jane Long of Texas, 1798-1880: A Biographical Novel of Jane Wilkinson Long of Texas, Based on Her True Story
Spanish Texas of the early nineteenth century was a strange, wild land. It took extraordinary men to settle this land.…
That Fateful Lightning: A Novel of Ulysses S. Grant
A dying and destitute Ulysses S. Grant must write his memoirs to bring financial security to his wife and family.…
Death at Whitechapel
In this sixth book by husband-and-wife writing team Robin Paige, detectives Sir Charles Sheridan and his wife, Kate Ardleigh, are…
A Simple Shaker Murder
This is the fourth entry in the Sister Rose Callahan series, set in the Shaker Village of North Homage, Kentucky…
The Heartsong of Charging Elk
The considerable power and impact generated in this novel come partly from the actuality behind Welch’s fiction. In 1889 a…
Sign-Talker
While the story of the exploration and settling of the American West by white Americans in the face of stubborn…
Chang and Eng
In this enthralling first novel, Darin Strauss has combined meticulous historical research with imaginative storytelling to create a richly detailed,…
Death on a Silver Tray
Beau Brummell is narrator in this frothy Regency mystery. I am a bit surprised that his dressing ritual and the…
Gone for Soldiers
Gone for Soldiers does not echo Peter, Paul and Mary’s pacifism in the song which provides the title. Rather, it…
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