Historical Novels & Short Stories

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A Post on the Far Frontier

Celia Hayes | November 16, 2009

Most people, when they have a mental vision of an Army fort on the American frontier, think of a wooden stockade of standing timber – but that was hardly ever the case in Texas. Indians almost never attacked those forts, so defensive walls were not necessary. An Army post on the far frontier then, [...]

Book Review: Pemberly Remembered

Celia Hayes | November 16, 2009

Pemberley Remembered, by Mary Lydon Simonsen,  is actually three separate love stories and a small mystery, all braided together. The mystery and the love stories are centered around a lovely 18th century  Derbyshire mansion; is Montclair the model for Pemberley, and were it’s original owners, one William Lacey and his wife, Elizabeth Garrison Lacy the [...]