Under the Gables

Pioneer ladies before a sod house on the Great Plains. In her O Pioneers! Willa Cather captured the efforts to create real homes of ...

Miss Moss is a genius in fashion mash-ups with food and with art. Have fun! I think she does.

The farmyard by Beatrix Potter for The Tale of Mrs. Jemima Puddle-Duck One last animal story from Mrs. Grant from the days when she was a ...

For you, Gab. In her memoirs Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant records two stories about elephants, and here they are. The Tale of Mr. and Mrs. Elephan...

Monument to Mrs. Julia Dent Grant in Galena, Illinois. This statue of Julia Dent Grant, I believe, shows the vitality of the beloved wife of...

A wagon train wends its way west along the Santa Fe Trail. In 1928 the American author Conrad Richter and his family pulled up stakes and mo...