I‘m enjoying taco salad for supper and a few chapters of Anything for Billy in the backyard on this beautiful evening.
#ReadAndEat #DeweysReadathon
I‘m enjoying taco salad for supper and a few chapters of Anything for Billy in the backyard on this beautiful evening.
#ReadAndEat #DeweysReadathon
My new at school read, although I‘m pretty sure I‘ll soon be invested enough that I‘ll be taking this book back and forth. It starts out with three men meeting each other on a foggy mountain and deciding to travel together. It‘s a McMurtry novel I‘d never heard of until a former student recommended it to me.
#TeachersOfLitsy #CurrentlyReading
Gotta love the weather in Wisconsin! 🙄
Tom Clavin has become the go-to author for old west history. This is the story of one of the last outlaw gangs of the Wild West. Focusing on the ill fated attempt to rob two banks at once in the town of Coffeyville, Kansas that resulted in a shootout with a sizable portion of the citizens of that town.
The Lamar and Hayden Valley areas are known a the American Serengeti. The open plains, the wildlife, the understanding of America as an amazing landscape. If you have seen this, it can be hard to believe that we almost lost it in the late nineteenth century. George Bird Grinnell is one of the men we can thank for saving this precious resource. He recognized that without proper conservation, the American West would be plundered into devastation.
Good account of the Mormon Trail from out of Nauvoo in 1846 through the Handcart painfulness of 1857 and almost to the Railroad era. He does use some questionable sources but mostly it is well written and tries to be somewhat unbiased.
Starting one of Stegner‘s histories I have never read. I mostly like his writing.
I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it (some I‘ve had so long I don‘t even remember why!). Feel free to join in!
#ABookADay2023
"He insisted that "The Donner Party was responsible for its own misfortune."" Yeah, but is he wrong, Elsie?