Gaylord Dold Author of The Mitch Roberts Series and More - page 25

    Bagley, Will. South Pass: Gateway to a Continent, University of Oklahoma Press,Norman, Oklahoma (325pp.) The crest of South Pass is located in Fremont County, Wyoming, about ten miles southwest of South Pass City at 42.34.4 degrees north latitude and 108.88.6 degrees west longitude….

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  Bagley, Will. With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the Mining West, 1849-1852, Volume 2, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2013 (480pp. $45) That there was placer gold in California’s Sierra Nevada was secret to many. Californios had found it in San Feliciano…

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I’ve spent all afternoon out in the streets, bathing in Jew hatred. Prasivo plemeno—filthy brood—is what I heard them call the Jews. Isn’t it only natural to leave a place where one is so bitterly hated? The heroism involved in staying put in spite of…

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Bagley, Will. So Rugged and Mountainous, University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. Fifty years later, Catherine Sager Pringle recalled that her father was one of the “restless” ones who took his large family, including a pregnant wife, west along the Oregon Trail in 1844. A German…

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Lewisohn, Mark, The Beatles: All These Years, Volume I, Tune In, Crown Archetype (Random House), New York, 2013 (932pp. $40) Nowhere is it written in the long history of History that History unspools the carpet of happiness at our human feet. The history of History…

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  McMillian, John. Beatles vs. Stones, Simon and Schuster, New York 2014 (304pp. $26) Before they were the Beatles they were four teenage “scousers” from Liverpool who seemed unlikely to be remembered by anyone. Save for Ringo who lived in bone-crushing poverty and possessed a…

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  Amis, Martin. The Zone of Interest, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2014 (306pp.$26.95)  Mostly an ossuary, the lamentable twentieth century and its Nazi Holocaust remains on Martin Amis’ mind. And why wouldn’t it, given that there is no adequate response to Primo Levi’s question…

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        I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.   Franz Kafka Letter to Felice Bauer April 13, 1913  

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  Reading means approaching something that is just coming into being. Italo Calvino, “If  on a winter’s night a traveler..”  

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During the early and mid-1980’s I was an attorney in private practice. Little by little I gravitated towards criminal law, which seemed to offer more glamorous and action-packed opportunities than the old grind-it-out prospects of business law, divorce or, worse yet, real estate. My clients…

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