A Moment with a Mexican Ground Squirrel

In my field time at Comanche Springs, I’ve seen this little guy during the spring and summer months running about this section. He’s always afraid of the Gator and has only been captured on the nearby camera trap twice. All that changed on an overcast almost rainy day last month. He ran west from the…

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The Do-Right – Excerpt

THE DO-RIGHT by  Lisa Sandlin  Genre: Mystery Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press Date of Publication: October 27, 2015 # of pages: 306 Scroll down for Giveaway! Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her. Wanted to kill the other one too, but he got away. Now, after fourteen years in prison, she’s out. It’s 1973,…

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How Mortality Records Can Provide a Historical Picture of a German Community

Imagine just this moment in time you’re dying of consumption in the High Plains of Texas. It’s August 1906, when the air is at its height of being hot, dry and stale. There might be an occasional breeze, but it does nothing to cool you. You’re coughing up blood mixed with phlegm because your lungs…

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Finding Dorothy Scott Review

FINDING DOROTHY SCOTT Letters of a WASP Pilot  by Sarah Byrn Rickman Genre: Military History / Biography Publisher: Texas Tech University Press Date of Publication: May 30, 2016 Number of Pages: 288 Scroll down for Giveaway! More than eleven hundred women pilots flew military aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces during World War…

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