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Taming the Wilderness #3

Exciting news! My new novel, The Mystery at Mount Forest Island. is now in the design phase at Amika Press and should be out soon! Meanwhile, enjoy reading the last article in the series about surveying Northern Illinois. If you … Continue reading

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TAMING THE ILLINOIS WILDERNESS #2

If you’ve walked through County Forest Preserve trails you have some idea of what Northern Illinois looked like before Illinois became a state in 1818. The land was wilderness: woods and grasslands… Continue reading

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