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A Cabinets of Curiosities of short stories. The disparate juxtaposition of Frito pies and the burning of Old Man Gloom, the fatal flight of the Wingfoot, Le Petit Théâtre Du Vieux Carré, the Salles des Glaces, equestrians Rose Dockrell and George Holland, the CSS Alabama vs. the USS Kearsage, Al Capone and the 226 Club, The Yellow Kid, and Doc W's antique dentist's drill. With as little similarity as a narwhale's tusk has to an astrolabes Islamique, the commonality here is the quasi-genre of Historical Fiction. Love and tragedy, time travel and nostalgia, and some nice big explosions.

The year is 1868. A young Native American boy, a Wintu, leaves the reservation in the Mendocino County of California to search for his father, a white man, who had been taken in by the tribe after an attack by a bear. His journey, and that of his sister, a companion from another tribe, and a young Chinese "Daughter of Joy," follow the Iron Trail of the First Transcontinental Railroad as it is completed, and as its Last Spike is driven into the hearts and minds and hopes of America's indigenous people.

Once Upon a Gold Rush is an old-fashioned adventure story filled with colorful characters, framed against the California gold rush of the 1850s. Based on a (somewhat) true story, it follows two brothers, James and John Grosh, and their sister, Mary Jane, on an overland journey by ox-drawn wagon, from the prairies of Illinois, across the plains and mountains of the wild, unsettled territories, to the Trinity River valley of Northern California. There they mine for gold and witness the beginning of the end of a way of life for the Native American inhabitants of the Golden State. John returns to Illinois by ship, sailing around Cape Horn, a voyage that he will not soon forget. Their lives are touched by people and events leading up to the American Civil War. This historical novel is the continuation of the saga of the Grosh family, begun in the book, All the Way by Water.

A historical novel about a pioneer family's journey from Western Pennsylvania to the Northern Illinois prairie by flatboat along canals, the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in 1846. Based on a true story.

Halley's Comet traces an elliptical orbit around our Sun, coming closest to it at a point called its Perihelion, about every 75 years. It may be visible from Earth as it nears and then leaves its Perihelion, and observations of the comet have been recorded since 467 BC. In each of those years something extraordinary happened. This volume is an attempt to tell at least some of those stories. Most of what you will read here is fact, or what passes as fact in the genre of History. Some of it is fanciful, exaggerated, or confused. Interspersed with historical narrative I have added some fictional characters and fictional events. And I have asked the question, is 1P/Halley a dispassionate observer or an incessant actor?Beginning near the beginning, our stories encounter the famous, the infamous, and the lesser-known players in the drama of world history. We meet, among others, Mark Twain, some residents of pre-dynastic Egypt, Aeschylus, Xerxes, Judas Maccabee, Pharaoh Ptotemy VI, Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, Saint Brendan of Ireland, Viking King Harald Hardraad, William the Conqueror, Genghis Khan, Giotto, Dante, Vlad the Impaler (aka Dracula), Jeanne d' Arc, Moctezuma, Juan Diego who saw the Virgin of Guadalupe, the settlers of the Popham Colony on the coast of Main, Edmond Halley, the Bideford witches, Mary Campbell who was captured by Native Americans, and the crew of the Challenger shuttle.