Did people cuss in the Old West?
The TV series “Deadwood” told us that they did – that denizens of an 1870s gold camp used just as many profanities and obscenities as we do today. But I wonder. Deadwood was hardly a typical place, and the gold-seekers, saloonkeepers, prostitutes, etc., who...
Poet of the Sierras
Cincinnatus Hiner “Joaquin” Miller was a real person who also is a character in my novel White Poison. By his own account, he was shot in the neck by an arrow during the battle of Castle Crags in 1855, no more than five miles as the crow flies from Dunsmuir, CA, where...