Historical Novels & Short Stories

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Contemplating Throwing In the Towel on Larry McMurtry

Celia Hayes | January 10, 2010

I’ll be hanging in there for several reasons – sheer stubbornness and the fact that I bought all four of them for pennies on the dollar at various library book sales being chief among them – but I just wanna say that at this point, me carrying on with reading Dead Man’s Walk, Comanche Moon, [...]

One Little Cannon

Celia Hayes | January 1, 2010

It was small – upon that, everyone agrees; a six pound cannon, most likely of Spanish make, very likely of bronze, or maybe iron, perhaps of brass. It was called a six-pound cannon because it fired a missile of that weight; pictures of an iron cannon of that type (and thought to have been the [...]