Wuthering
Expectations

Portland has, by my standards, an outstanding public library, meaning they have new books but also old books, even in languages other than E...

When I described George Frederick Ruxton’s 1848 fictionalized account of the lives of Rocky Mountain fur trappers, Life in the Far West ,  a...

When Francis Parkman traveled up the Oregon Trail in the summer of 1846, he had already decided, at age 22, to write a massive, multi-volume...

I'm stealing the title of a Peter Gay book (1974) that I have looked at but not read, a study of the styles of a number of European hist...

Exam question: Describe the material conditions of 13th century Plains Indians. Answer: It's a trick question.  There were no Plains I...

Chief A Big Fat Fall by Tripping, it is told, owned fifteen hundred horses, but he was so fat that he could not ride any of them and had to ...

A sample of Pekka Hämäläinen's startling The Comanche Empire (2009): The assault came in March 16, 1758, when an estimated two thousan...

For reasons only distantly related to 19th century literature, I have been reading about Native American history. I'm trying to "le...

Sort of a shocking thing to read. But Darwin is a scientist, so it's all right. It's possible that the condor is on view at the Natu...