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Brings Red Cloud’s War to Life!

Revisado: 07-01-23

As an artist, I’ve depicted the Fetterman Fight, primarily based on Dee Brown’s book about Fort Phil Kearny . But Punte’s excellent book serves to flesh out the players-both Indian and cavalry-and events leading up to the Fetterman Fight. If you know little about these events, this book will lead you to other excellent histories: many of which, the author himself suggests in the afterword.

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Up close and personal at the Bloody Angle!

Revisado: 12-22-22

The writer’s main premise-That Lee’s plan for Pickett’s attack on the third day of Gettysburg could, and should have succeeded; is defended throughout the book, but it doesn’t get in the way of some of the most detailed experience of what it was like to be part of the “high water mark of the Confederacy”. Using letters, diaries and recollections of some of the men involved, you find yourself in the ranks of the doomed charge-doomed, because JEB Stuart’s planned cavalry charge from the Union rear never materialized, and doomed because Longstreet and AP Hill did not communicate well, and failed to send reinforcements when the battle-indeed the fate of the Confederacy-was on the line! The narrator does a fine job as well. Very poignant experience if you’ve ever crossed that field headed towards the copse of trees at the Bloody Angle.

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A Long-forgotten memoir of a young mountain man

Revisado: 03-26-22

I found the story of Isaac Rose fascinating. He and another teenager travel to the home of the Blackfeet and the Crow, in search of beaver pelts. The become camp hands for a group of trappers led by Jim Bridget ; and including a young hunter named Kit Carson. Young Rose and his friend’s skill with a gun soon elevate the men to true trapper status. Rose has many amazing adventures, fighting hostile, celebrating his 20th birthday at the annual mountain man rendezvous, and even being captured and adopted into the Crow tribe. Although the narrator occasionally sounds like Gabby Hayes as he tackles the unique accents of the mountain men, I found it sorta charming and fit well with the 19th Century style of narration. All in all, this is a great (and probably mostly true) adventure of a young man in the mid-1830’s.

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Savonarola Comes To Life

Revisado: 10-23-21

I thought I knew the story of Savonarola and the Bonfire of the Vanities; but Death in Florence fleshes out one of the Renaissance’s most mysterious personalities. I learned so much about Florence at the end of the reign of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and the relationship between the two men. The Ordeal by Fire, that marked the beginning of the end for Savonarola, and the siege of his monastery by a Florentine mob, are incredible moments of rarely-shared history!

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Amazing Stories-not what I expected

Revisado: 04-28-21

This group of thought-provoking stories explores the lonely little lives of single women living in the seedier side of New York-or unhappily married women, or women who have moved to a rural setting...or maybe she just had a toothache! They are grouped together and the stories gradually grow more mysterious and unsettling. It saves the most powerful story, The Lottery, for the last! A great gathering of short stories.

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