Tales of Turbulent Times

Read from E.P. Howell’s diaries here: “The Road to California.” What follows is taken from the introduction to that text: Introduction In May of 1849 a company of forty-niners travelers…    read more

—Originally published in The Missouri Review, Volume 14, Number 3:  A Man Between Nations: The Diary of Peter Pitchlynn 1828 – 1837 from the Foreword This issue’s “History as Literature”…    read more

—Originally published in The Missouri Review, Volume 15, Number 3:  How the financier of the American Revolution ended up in its first Debtors’ Prison Few people are aware that the…    read more