Subtitle: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann copyright 2017 ISBN: 978-0-3855-3424-46 Hardback, 291 pages plus acknowledgements, credits, sources and notes totaling 339 pages Publisher – Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland Illustrated with black and white photos of the period Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and […]
Author: Carolyn Leonard
Author, Genealogist, Speaker. She is author of at least three books available from Amazon.com, or your favorite bookstore. WHO'S YOUR DADDY a how-to guide for genealogy, TO ISRAEL, WITH LOVE, A Journey of Discovery in History, Mystery, Travel, and Relationships ...in full color and large print, and THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS in America.
Washita Memories
Eyewitness views of Custer’s Attack on Black Kettle’s Villageby Richard G. Hardorff Pub. Date: October 2008Publisher: University of Oklahoma PressFormat: Paperback , 464 ppISBN-13: 9780806139906 Reviewed by Carolyn B. LeonardOn November 27, 1868, the U.S. Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer attacked a peaceful Southern Cheyenne village along the Washita River in present-day western […]
Leadership In Turbulent Times
Released: September 18, 2018 byDoris Kearns Goodwin(Author) Available in Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle, Audiobook, and CD Hardcover:496 pages Publisher:Simon & Schuster; First Edition/First Printing ISBN-10:1476795924 ISBN-13:978-1476795928 Product Dimensions:6.1 x 1.3 x 9.2 inches […]
Queen Melisende of Jerusalem
by Carolyn B. Leonard (NOTE: This is an excerpt from TO ISRAEL, WITH LOVE, second edition, now available from Amazon.com and your local bookstore. See more here: https://amzn.to/2tfPXw5 Melisende (1105–1161) was Queen of Jerusalem from AD 1131 to 1153, and she served as regent for her thirteen-yearold son from then until her death. Her coronation […]
7 Steps to a Pain-Free life
How to Rapidly Relieve Back, Neck, and Shoulder Pain by Robin McKenzie w/ Craig Kubey copyright 2000, updated edition; 9th printingISBN: 978-0-14-218069-3Softcover, 246 pages including index and bibliographyPublisher – Penguin GroupIllustrated with black and white photos of the exercises. (Review by Carolyn B. Leonard) I read this book because my spine specialist, Dr. Charles Hogan […]
The Mustanger and the Lady
Dusty Richard Review by Carolyn Leonard This is Dusty Richard’s 150th published book. When he showed the manuscript to his publisher, Casey Cowan, they called it “a real John Wayne western.” I disagree. In those old westerns, the cowboy only kissed his horse, but in “Mustanger” the hero has a very present and active love […]
Graciela, No One’s Child
By Grace Banta First Edition 2010, Second Edition 2015ISBN 13: 978-1-5194-3744-0Trade paperback size, 221 pagesSelf-Published Review by Carolyn Leonard, of Graciela, No One’s Child I met the author Grace Banta and her husband Bob in Kentucky this summer. Bob lovingly introduced his wife and spoke proudly of her book. I bought it and read it […]
The Horse Soldier
Review by Carolyn Leonard I LOVED the Horse Soldier by Merline Lovelace – and that is quite an endorsement since I don’t usually like romance novels! I picked this book because of its setting in Fort Laramie. As an amateur historian I had visited the restored fort a few years ago, and immediately felt as […]
“The Awakening Land”
The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950) Author: Conrad Richter LC Number 66-21362:Copyright 1966, revised edition 1991 Review by Carolyn B. Leonard The Awakening Land trilogy by Conrad Richter is a series of three novels that explore the lives of a white American frontier family in the Ohio Valley from the late […]
Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades
The Civil War in the Words of Those Who Lived It by Susannah Ural (Author) ISBN: 9781849085908 Hardcover– October 22, 2013First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Osprey PublishingE-mail: info@ospreypublishing.comReview by Carolyn B. Leonard The author is a professor in the history department at the University of Southern Mississippi, so she might have a […]