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		<title>West to the Sun – T.G. Good: Book Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a good omen for the cover of a book intended to tell the story of the great emigrant trails across the far western frontier, to feature an illustration of a covered wagon pulled by the appropriate numbers of the appropriate draft animal. The cover art for all too many works of fiction about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://historical-fiction.thedeepening.com/2010/03/03/west-to-the-sun-%e2%80%93-t-g-good-book-review/</link>
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		<title>Into the West &#8211; The Real Story of Truckee&#8217;s Trail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hardly anyone has ever heard of this particular party of men, women and children. They crossed the continent in 1844, and  blazed a trail in the wilderness, being the first to bring wagons all the way to California.  They  walked nearly two thousand miles, across plain and desert,  finally hauling their wagons up a sheer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://historical-fiction.thedeepening.com/2010/02/24/into-the-west-the-real-story-of-truckees-trail/</link>
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		<title>Comancheria &#8211; Texas Rangers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his one-volume history of Texas “Lone Star”, T.R.. Fehrenbach cites one particular reason for Texas having such a distinctive culture relative to the other states. There is a distinctly different “feel” to living here; of all the places in the States where I have lived or visited; only Utah and Hawaii came even close [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://historical-fiction.thedeepening.com/2010/02/02/comancheria-texas-rangers/</link>
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		<title>Contemplating Throwing In the Towel on Larry McMurtry</title>
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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 &#8211; but I just wanna say that at this point, me carrying on with reading Dead Man’s Walk, Comanche Moon, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://historical-fiction.thedeepening.com/2010/01/10/contemplating-throwing-in-the-towel-on-larry-mcmurtry/</link>
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		<title>One Little Cannon</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://historical-fiction.thedeepening.com/2010/01/01/one-little-cannon/</link>
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		<title>A Post on the Far Frontier</title>
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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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://historical-fiction.thedeepening.com/2009/11/16/a-post-on-the-far-frontier/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Pemberly Remembered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://historical-fiction.thedeepening.com/2009/11/16/book-review-pemberly-remembered/</link>
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		<title>More Like Mr. Darcy, Less Like Shane</title>
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The front of the Alamo is instantly recognizable; almost like a stage set. Everybody knows the bed-stead outline with what would have been a pair of towers on either side, a pair of shell-supported niches on either side of the door, and the window over it … were there ever statues in those niches? I’ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://historical-fiction.thedeepening.com/2009/10/15/more-like-mr-darcy-less-like-shane/</link>
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		<title>A Deep-Dyed Villain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He really was a black hat, this particular villain; he was known and recognized throughout the district – around Fredricksburg and the German settlements in Gillespie County – by a fine, black beaver hat. Which was not furry, as people might tend to picture immediately – but made of felt, felt manufactured from the hair [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://historical-fiction.thedeepening.com/2009/10/01/a-deep-dyed-villain/</link>
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		<title>Independent Heart &#8211; Juliet Waldron</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being as the preface so notes, an  “… account of Angelica TenBroeck’s flight from New York City during the late War of Independence, her would-be lovers, and a bluebird quilt” , “Independent Heart is as wayward as its’ title.
It begins straightforwardly enough at an elegant ball, appearing for the first couple of chapters to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://historical-fiction.thedeepening.com/2009/10/01/independent-heart-juliet-waldron/</link>
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