Buying Your Winter Hat
If your noggin is a bit cold these mornings, you might need a good winter hat. As I said before a cap is not a hat. A felt hat can...
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David A. Bowles
David A Bowles
- Dec 4, 2022
- 1 min
Hat’s Off
In my last blog “Author’s Best Friend,” I wrote how a character’s hat could tell much about the persona of a fictional character. In...
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David A Bowles
- Dec 2, 2022
- 1 min
Author’s Best Friend
In the Westward Sagas Series many of my characters wear hats. No article of clothing describes a character’s true persona better than...
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David A Bowles
- Nov 23, 2022
- 1 min
An Empire Is Born
On a cold November day in 1838, Mirabeau Lamar discovered the location he desired to establish his empire.
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David A Bowles
- Nov 18, 2022
- 1 min
Chicken Fried Steak
Texan’s take their chicken fried steak (CFS) seriously. Usually served with cream gravy and mashed potatoes and a fresh roll. West Texas...
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David A Bowles
- Nov 14, 2022
- 2 min
Scots or Scots-Irish?
Like most Americans, my DNA is a variety of nationalities and cultures. The Westward Sagas series describes the 100-year odyssey of the...
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David A Bowles
- Nov 11, 2022
- 1 min
Good Samaritans Save Fayette Smith
Taos merchant, John A. Rowland, paid $60 in silver to Mexican Comancheros, to barter with Comanche Indians for the return of...
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David A Bowles
- Nov 9, 2022
- 1 min
Room with a View – Grand Canyon
From the living room of Emery and Ellsworth Kolb’s studio, I saw the floor of the Grand Canyon nearly a mile below. The adventurous...
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David A Bowles
- Nov 6, 2022
- 1 min
Why Daylight Savings Time?
Before the Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, uniformity of time wasn’t a high priority. For horse drawn stagecoaches,...
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David A Bowles
- Nov 3, 2022
- 1 min
Architect Extraordinaire
Edwin Waller was to Austin as Pierre L’Enfant was to Washington D.C.; except Waller was not an architect of urban planning. Both designed...
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David A Bowles
- Oct 31, 2022
- 1 min
Texas Down Under
There is a town named Texas in the Goondiwindi Region of Queensland, Australia. The town of Texas in Australia was founded in 1840,...
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David A Bowles
- Oct 30, 2022
- 1 min
Global Girls Book Club
As Author of the Day on the Global Girls Online Book Club, I had the opportunity to meet new bibliophiles from around the World. Most of...
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David A Bowles
- Oct 29, 2022
- 1 min
Gladys Whitt Puryear
On this day, October 29, 1918, my grandmother, Gladys Whitt Puryear died of the Spanish Flu in Harrisburg, a small town near Houston,...
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