by mike | Apr 15, 2019 | Movies, Native American Films, Native Americans, Non-Fiction, Uncategorized |
In the excellent Native American film, Powwow Highway, we join Philbert Bono riding his “war pony” (A rusted, piece-of-crap Buick) as he leaves his home on the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana for a “vision quest” through a number of Plains states. (See my...
by mike | Apr 1, 2019 | Ghosts, Movies, Myths & Legends, Non-Fiction, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
File this one under “unsolved mysteries,” an incident that has confounded researchers, as well as ordinary people, for over a century. How did three lighthouse keepers on Eilean Mòr, site of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse, vanish one day without a trace? Eilean Mòr is...
by mike | Jan 21, 2019 | Books, California, Editing, Historical Novels, Native Americans, Nightmares, Non-Fiction, Research, Uncategorized, Writing |
When writing historical novels based on true events, the challenge is to not make the scenes read like dry, academic research for a thesis. My award-winning historical novel, Stone Woman: Winema and the Modocs, offers many examples of how (hopefully) not to bore...
by mike | Aug 13, 2018 | Books, Historical Novels, Museums, Non-Fiction, Uncategorized |
Also called the Great Dinosaur Rush, the Bone Wars comprises an interesting chapter in American history. The phrase refers to a period of fiercely competitive fossil hunting that took place during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Although many others got...
by mike | Jul 9, 2018 | Life, Museums, Non-Fiction, Uncategorized |
“There’s a sucker born every minute,” someone once declared. No, it wasn’t P.T. Barnum, the great showman, as many believe. But Barnum did have a role to play in the story of the Cardiff Giant—the greatest hoax of the nineteenth century. THE PETRIFIED MAN In 1868 a...
by mike | Feb 12, 2018 | Books, Movies, Non-Fiction, Travel, Uncategorized |
In 1981 a young Israeli man, Yossi Ghinsberg, went backpacking around the globe in search of adventure. During a trek through a minimally explored jungle in Bolivia, he found more adventure than he ever bargained for—and it nearly cost him his life. Years later Yossi...
