Man’s best friend

Posted by admin Sep 13 2011, 6:00 am in cowboys, dogs, heroes, heroines Scottish terrier, Pembroke Welsh corgi, western

Man’s best friend Once our son’s grew up and left home, my husband and I got puppies. So now we do agility with our dogs, a Scottish terrier named Smokey and a Pembroke Welsh corgi named Bandit. So now I’m thinking about how to incorporate dogs into my stories. Since I write (mostly) in the American west, there are plenty of opportunity to have a dog as a character. In one story the cowboy hero brings his new wife a puppy. Ranches often had dogs, as they were useful in helping drive cattle. My husband’s family had a dog, Buster,

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Manifest Destiny

Posted by admin Jun 19 2011, 4:44 am in Anna Kathryn Lanier, Manifest Destiny, western, Western Movement

by Anna Kathryn Lanier In 1845 a magazine reporter wrote “Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.” He was, in other words, giving a moral excuse to the greed and imperial ambition of the American people to expand westward. God had predestined the United States of America to stretch from sea to shining sea and it was, therefore, the duty of the American people to spread Christianity and democracy across the continent. The idea of Manifest Destiny did not originate with this reporter. Since 1803, when President

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