Would Frontiersmen Pool Resources for Potential Brides?

Would Frontiersmen Pool Resources for Potential Brides?

by | Sep 3, 2017 | Articles

Would frontiersmen actually pool their financial resources to bring potential brides west? Would they trust one of their own to go East to find brides for them all? One county in Dakota Territory did just that in 1885. A California newspaper, The Petaluma Courier announced the plan.

The circumstances immediately brought to mind the premise behind my series, Prosperity’s Mail-Order Brides. Books 2 and 3 are in the queue (with titles!), and all have fancy new covers.

Victorian Blizzards, Nonstop in the 1880s

Victorian Blizzards, Nonstop in the 1880s

by | Mar 11, 2017 | Articles

The decade of the 1880s proved among the most disastrous, desperate, life-threatening (and life-taking)–as winter in North America was at an extreme, the whole decade long. Climatologists have theories we understand today, but were unknown to our Victorian American ancestors. If you read a fictional book set in the 1880s, that touches on a mild winter, be surprised. Today, March 11th, is the anniversary of “the big one”.