I am pretty sure that The Swamp Fox, Francis Marion was on my to-be-read shelves longer than any other book I currently own.  I believe I b...

How weird that these two short books have never crossed my path before this!  Especially considering what a big fan of Daniel Boone I have b...

Funny thing: I thought I had read this book before.  I assigned it to one of my homeschool co-op classes to read for this month, remembering...

What a fun and engaging way to present the life of "Deadwood Dick," also known as Nat Love, one of the Old West's premiere cow...

This book has been on my wishlist for a while now.  When I spotted the updated new edition at the Hole in the Wall Bookstore at Wall Drug in...

Wow. That's what I always say when I read about Robert Smalls.  Or think about him.  Or talk about him.  Wow.  What an amazing human bei...

My best friend gave me this book because she loved it and wanted me to read it too.  And, happily, I loved it too!  I read it as research fo...

This is a loving tribute of a biography.  Catherine Marshall, famous to us today for her novel Christy , wrote the story of her husband Pete...

This was a very cool book, especially since I love the new Midway  (2019) movie so much.  This book really helped round out Wade McClusky ...

I first learned about Robert Smalls on Facebook, of all crazy places.  I can't believe I knew nothing about him!  Especially since he ...

After seeing the movie Harriet  (2019) in the theater last month, I decided I needed to know more about Harriet Tubman.  I re-read Freedom...

So, y'all already know that I dearly love Elinore Pruitt Stewart's two collections of letters, Letters of a Woman Homesteader  and...

I've wanted to know more about the real lives of the Brontës ever since I read Becoming Jane Eyre  a few years ago.  I wanted somethin...

Oh. My. Goodness. You know how sometimes, lots of people tell you to read a book because they're sure you would love it, and so you ...

I'm pretty sure I've read this before, back in middle school or high school.  But I enjoyed re-reading it nonetheless, and I'm...

Sid Fleischman has been one of my favorite authors since I was probably ten or so.  My mom read By the Great Horn Spoon! aloud to my broth...

You most likely know by now that Raymond Chandler is my favorite author.  I go into occasional rhapsodies about his startlingly delightfu...

This book's subtitle is The Life and Times of the Real Rooster Cogburn, the Man who Inspired "True Grit," and as such, I'...

This is not a tell-all expose of deep, dark secrets supposedly harbored by the world's first consulting detective.  And it has nothing a...

The full title of this book is Nothing Daunted:  The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West .  It's the story of how tw...