Frontier Weather in Western Romance
The rugged landscapes of the American West—dusty plains, wide skies, and dramatic mountain ranges—have always played a starring role in both history and storytelling. For frontier families and the romance heroes and heroines of Caroline Clemmons’s Texas-set novels,...Life on the Texas Frontier: 1880s Texas Food
A condensed version of this blog was on A Writer’s Life. Step back into the rugged world of 1880s Texas food, where survival meant mastering the art of preservation and every meal was a testament to human ingenuity. Through a fascinating journey into our Texas...Why Horse Theft Was Punished So Severely in Texas (1865-1890)
Horse theft in Texas between the end of the Civil War and 1890 was considered one of the most serious crimes on the frontier. The severity of punishment stemmed from both the practical importance of horses in frontier life and the inadequate formal law enforcement...The Real Orphan Trains
In A Family for Merry, a novella I wrote that appeared in Orphan Train Brides with Jacquie Rogers, I wrote about the orphan trains. The orphan trains were real. They ran between 1854 and 1929. They were an imperfect solution to a huge problem. Children in New York...
