The Wild West of Yester-Year
Current and Past Columns
In each issue, Rachel features a famous figure from the old west.
The Buffalo Soldiers (Feb 2024)
Newspapers in the Old West (Sept 2023)
The Santa Fe Trail (June 2023)
Clara Brown, Angel of the Rockies (Feb 2023)
Harmonicas of the Old West (Dec 2022)
Marshall Bass Reeves (Nov 2022)
Luther Standing Bear (July 2022)
Ice Cream in the Old West (June 2022)
Tye Leung Schulze (April 2022)
Mail-Order Matchmaking (March 2022)
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton (Feb 2022)
Christmas in the Old West (Dec 2021)
Fee Lee and Hal Shek Wong (April 2021)
Susan la Flesche Picotte (Nov 2020)
The Homestead Act of 1862 (Sept 2020)
Margaret "Molly" Brown (Aug 2020)
Comanche, the Most Famous Calvary Horse (June 2020)
Ellen "Nellie" Cashman (Nov 2019)
The Frontier Woman's Ally (Sept 2019)
They Tamed the Land: Immigrant Pioneers (Aug 2019)
Independence Day in the Old West (July 2019)
The Way We Wash Our Clothes (March 2019)
The Great Divide: Europeans Exploring America (April 2019)
Bridget "Biddy" Mason (Oct 2018)
Frederic Remington (Sept 2018)
The Three Guardsmen (July 2018)
General Lewis Wallace (April 2018)
Soda Pop in the Old West (March 2018)
About Rachel:
Rachel Kovaciny retells fairy tales in Old West settings. Do you enjoy stories about pioneers, ranchers, cowboys, and gunmen? Do you get a kick out of seeing how familiar stories can play out in new settings? Are you searching for clean books with sound Christian theology? These books are for you.
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