I received microfilm of Elizabeth Custer’s journals from Yale University yesterday and it reads like the diary an 11 year-old girl would have written. Her father gave her the journal for her 10th birthday in April 1853 with instructions to “keep and preserve a record of her life.” Elizabeth didn’t use the journal until her read more…

I will never get past what I’ve done. My brother was terrified and looked to me for help and I told him to plead guilty. It was wrong and there is no way to undo the action. So, here are a few words of advise from a sister who convinced her brother to plead guilty read more…

The meeting yesterday with the attorney resulted in more bad news. It’s hard to hear that there is no help to be had and that my brother will die in prison. The sticking point is that he pled guilty – a course I told him to take because our attorney, JR Hobbs out of Kansas read more…

When Libbie Custer left her parent’s home in Monroe, Michigan with her new husband, George Custer, she was excited about all the possibilities ahead of them. Nineteen days after they were married, however, George had to return to his cavalry division engaged in heated battles with the Confederate Army. They wrote one another often and read more…

I’ve noticed that a number of visitors to my site are interesting in wild west costumes. So, I’ve got an offer I hope you won’t pass up. In exchange for signing up for my email newsletter I will send you a copy of the book How the West Was Worn. Just send me an email read more…

My real father left my brothers, mother, and I when I was about 7 years old. Prior to that he stopped in long enough to create trouble for my mother and take whatever money she had earned to support us because her husband of 15 years refused to do so. I have seen this man read more…

The plan yesterday was to work on the Elizabeth Custer book, but I had to put it aside to review the final pages of the Buffalo Bill book that had come from the editor. My editor sent the pages via an attachment to an email and it took me two hours just to get it read more…

The trip to Washington D.C. was a positive one. I met with a few politicians who promised to look into helping my brother. We’ll see. I do appreciate the process of being able to meet face to face with elected officials and voicing your concerns. Up until this weekend, I’d only read about such things. read more…

I’m off to Washington D.C. today. I’ll be meeting with a few politicians about my brother, the poor treatment of federal prisons, the number of rapes that happen inside, and the rise in false allegation of child molestation. I plan to spend some time at the National Archives as well researching Libbie Custer’s story. No read more…

News came yesterday that the Roy Rogers/Dale Evans Museum will be closing in December. Howard Kazanjian and I spent a great deal of time with the family getting to know all about the cowboy duo’s life and poured over precious artifacts and letters to pen the two books we wrote about them. It was a read more…