In 1860 George Eliot wrote “You can’t judge a book by its cover” in her book The Mill on the Floss. (And yes, George Eliot was
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
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