Gilded Age
Banquet at Delmonico’s: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
Banquet at Delmonico’s is a densely packed history of the rise of social Darwinism in the United States between 1871…
In the Shadow of Gotham
In the Shadow of Gotham opens with a brutal murder in the wealthy but quiet neighborhood of Dobson, New York,…
The Inheritance
In 1877, hoping to make a new start, McKenna Ashford accepts her cousin’s invitation and migrates with her rebellious younger…
Dearest
In 1872, Anne, a small-town milliner, meets a wealthy engineer from Pittsburgh while on an Ohioan riverboat. After sharing a…
Union Pacific
The early American West was a rough terrain to conquer. For Union Pacific railroad workers, it meant impossible logistics through…
Hearts On The Wind
Ingrid Johansson’s close-knit Swedish immigrant family brought many of the traditions of their native country to their new farm on…
From Guns to Gavels: How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West
Lost in the Western frontier tales of steely-eyed gunfighters, crafty cattle thieves, and daring bank robbers is the slow but…
Unbridled Dreams
In 1886, thanks to a successful banking business, the Friedrichs are social leaders in South Platte, Nebraska. Eighteen-year-old Irma is…
North Star
In 1870, legendary trail guide and former mountain man Barnaby Skye realized that the West he knew and loved was…
The Parlor House Daughter
Rebecca Rose’s beginnings are inauspicious. Born to a Nevada City prostitute, she witnesses her mother’s murder at an early age.…
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