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Two years ago, Joanne presented her civil war novel, “The Girl in the Butternut Dress,” at our Friends of the Desert Hot Springs Library Author Series. At the time, her second book ...

Reading this current book restoked all those old desert-war emotions from my youth and did, in fact, cause me to break out my cherished copy of Frank’s old Crusader game to push counters around the ...

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author of the 2020 book “The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West,” speaking on “The American Civil War in the Desert Southwest” 11 ...

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