Proving Her Claim is set in Rendezvous, Dakota Territory. According to the story, the town was founded during those halcyon days when French Canadian and Scots fur
I volunteer on several boards, and at a recent meeting the organizer asked a “warm up” question to get the group ready for work. She
The Women’s Suffrage Movement — the right to vote — took nearly 100 years before it was the law of the nation. In the 1820s
Recently someone asked me about the origins of the term “proving a claim.” It’s a good question, and not a term that we use much
The Homestead Act of 1862 was, no pun intended, landmark legislation that changed the course of our nation. Professor Hannah Haksgaard, a Property and Family Law professor
In her letter to her mother, Anna describes her new home: My home is what they call a “soddy.” It is small, about the same size
One of my beta readers commented that it appeared I’d done a lot of research while writing Proving Her Claim. She was right. I wanted to
When I began this project I really didn’t give much thought to the whole “publishing a book” part of the path to publishing. Boy, did
It was the Bible for my copyediting class at South Dakota State University: the Associated Press Stylebook. As journalists, we lived and died by the AP Stylebook: spelling out numbers
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