A smallish book . . . finally . . .

Well, I finally did it!

Nearly 30 years later, I turned a college paper into a small book.

Introducing - The Big Siege of Fort Boonesborough and The Winning of the American West.

How did this finally come about, you ask?

So, as most of you know, I graduated from Texas A & M University with a B.S. in education a hundred years ago. I came back to my hometown as a young whippersnapper and taught school at my old elementary school (and alongside some of my former teachers).

And yet, for the longest time, I was dissatisfied. Teaching became a job, partly because it was not what I had envisioned it to be, and partly because of so much government interference had began about the time I graduated. (I will add - I am teaching now part-time in middle school, no less, and loving it!)

Now, I had always loved history, and so after toying and taking a few classes in library science (and deciding it would take wwaaaaayyyyyy too long to get that master's degree), I enrolled in some classes in an effort to work toward getting my master's in history.

I signed up, naturally, for the class on writing history. My topic: The Big Siege of Fort Boonesborough.

I got high marks for that paper, and years later, I realized it would make a really good little book to add to my repertoire. However, I never found the time to finish it.

I recently did a talk at my local DAR chapter about the big siege, and now, I have two more talks scheduled at other local chapters. At these chapters, I am limited to twenty minutes, and the talk is longer than that. So, I decided to dust off my partially finished book and get it into print.

You can read more about the book by clicking the link below. It is available in paperback and kindle from Amazon.

And if you are in the Houston area and are interested in seeing me and learning about a little-known event in history, be sure to check out the Upcoming Events section of my website, or follow me on Facebook. If you are looking for a speaker for a history, reading, or any other kind of group and would like me to talk about Boonesborough, the Quakers, or another topic, feel free to contact me. I would love to come spend some time with you and yours!