Western Fictioneers

Post by Doris McCraw aka Angela Raines Image (C) Doris McCraw Try saying sesquisemiquincentennial three times really fast. Of course, it mea...

  January 9 is a day with two notable “firsts.” In 1847, the first newspaper in Yerba Buena,   The California Star,   was published by Samue...

Post by Doris McCraw aka Angela Raines Image (C) Doris McCraw  2025 is about to be a scene in the rearview mirror. Here is a look back at th...

  On December 12, 1874, President Ulysses S. Grant     and his wife Julia hosted the very first official state dinner. The guest was the kin...

  Howdy Everyone,  I hope you are all doing well!   Recently I have heard a lot of talk about how the western needs to push into different g...

Post (c) by Doris McCraw aka Angela Raines Image (C) Doris McCraw We all encounter the unexpected. Usually fun, sometimes irritating, and oc...

  This is not entirely Old West, but it’s interesting, nonetheless. On November 14, 1889,   New York World journalist Nellie Bly began a rou...

Post by Doris McCraw aka Angela Raines Image (C) Doris McCraw What was the impact of Sir St. George Gore’s 1850s hunting expedition on the A...

  On October 10, 1899, inventor Isaac R. Johnson lodged his patent for a folding bicycle. This was the first to have a recognizably modern d...

Post (C) Doris McCraw aka Angela Raines Image (C) Doris McCraw "‘Rocky Mountain Jim,’ the frontiersman made famous by Isabella Bird in ...