Category Research
Happy Birthday
Patricia Grady Cox February 20, 2019 We celebrate the birthdays of Presidents Washington and Lincoln in February. Schools close, some of us get a day off from work, and the stores advertise big sales. Today I want to remember another big February birthday: The State of Arizona! When President Taft signed a Declaration of […]
Thieves and Artifacts
Patricia Grady Cox January 15, 2019 While working on my current novel, I thought it would be interesting to have my characters raid ancient Mexican pyramids and steal anything that looked valuable. It just so happened that the Phoenix Art Museum was having a special exhibit, TEOTIHUACAN: CITY OF WATER, CITY OF FIRE with artifacts […]
When Once is not Enough . . .
Patricia Grady Cox – October 7, 2018 Every now and then I think about writing a sequel to HELLGATE, my most recent novel, set in 1880 Arizona Territory. That thought gained momentum recently as I watched a PBS documentary about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Prescott’s small Chinatown (50 Chinese in Prescott according to […]
More 19th Century Medicine
Patricia Grady Cox August 10, 2016 I can’t seem to stop reading this book! “The National Farmer’s and Housekeeper’s Cyclopaedia” contains too much useful information, especially if one is writing a novel set in this time period. This 1888 portal into the past offers not only the “science” but also the culture and attitudes of […]
ARE YOU SICK? HERE’S WHY!
Patricia Grady Cox August 3, 2016 I haven’t posted in a while due to a couple of relatively minor and totally fixable (now fixed) medical issues that kept me from typing. Instead, I worked on research for my current novel-in-progress and discovered I have a book entitled “The National Farmer’s and Housekeeper’s Cyclopaedia.” This book […]
WATER IN THE WEST – A MINI-INTRO
by Patricia Grady Cox October 14, 2015 With all the news about discovering running water on Mars and the drought in California, I thought it would be fun to provide a simplified history of the origins of water supplies in Arizona. The Arizona Territory, created in 1863, consisted primarily of prospectors and gold miners, various […]
CRAZY THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT THE 19th CENTURY
Patricia Grady Cox September 23, 2015 Some of us spent our childhoods watching westerns on TV: Gunsmoke, Wanted—Dead or Alive, Palladin, Wagon Train, Rawhide, The Big Valley, Bonanza . . . Westerns were the NCIS of the late 50s and early 60s. You could find at least one every night. And then they were no […]
CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL
By Patricia Grady Cox September 16, 2015 When you’ve wanted to visit a place ever since you first heard of it (and that would be decades ago), how wonderful it is that you are not disappointed when you get there! The Crazy Horse Memorial held the number one spot on my list of places to […]
A Few 19th Century Medical Treatments
By Patricia Grady Cox September 9, 2015 Sometimes horrible things befall our characters. They get shot, penetrated by arrows, bitten by rattlesnakes, catch horrible diseases, and develop addictions. At least these are a just a few of the tragedies that have befallen my characters! They really should be more careful. When these situations crop up, […]
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