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 […]

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       […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

Subtitle:  The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby ISBN 978-1-61145-048–4 (pbj) A Nonfiction book Published by Arcade Publishing, a registered trademark of Skyhorse Publishing Inc, a Delaware Corporation Arcade of New York, Copyright 1999 & 2011, 491 pages DEALING WITH THE DEVIL Review by Carolyn Leonard This book was painful for me to read. It shows […]

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 and named a #1 New York Times bestseller for […]