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Chasing the Dream

by Kathleen Haun In Kathleen Haun's fifth book, she invites us into the ramshackle mining camps of the 1848 California gold rush during a time in history that changed the state, the country and the world in dramatic and unexpected ways. When enterprising women heard that miners would pay for good food, they traveled to the [...]

Dear Carrie

by Kathleen Haun Letters written in 1878 by a young woman new to the West, and found in an old trunk in the twenty-first century, reveal the daily life of a bygone era in the towns along the Eastern Sierra of California. Revealed are the early pioneers who settled this part of the state, the early [...]

No Trees for Shade

by Kathleen Haun Kathleen's fourth historical novel once again gives the reader an opportunity to escape into the events that played out in the pioneer towns along the Eastern Sierra. If you ever wondered what it was like to live in the infamous town of Bodie, California during its exciting and fateful peak years, you [...]

Moving On

by Kathleen Haun Kathleen Haun's third novel once again offers insight into life in the 1800's, both on the Oregon Trail and along California's Eastern Sierra. Leaving war torn Missouri in 1863 on a wagon train headed west, the Carrington family experiences adventures and challenges that change their lives in ways they never could have imagined. [...]

Green and Roughshod

by Dan H. McLachlan When the author was thirteen, he pulled a book, ALL IN THE DAY'S RIDING, from the Palo Alto Library shelves. It changed his life. Reading it was enough to make him determined, even though it was written 33 years earlier, to follow Will James' suggestion and ride a saddle horse and lead [...]

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