Cowboy campfire cooking, American Quarter Horses, and ‘Redding’s Fandango’ goes wide

Jul 11, 2024 5:00 pm

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July, 24

 

 

Howdy pard,


Ooh boy, what a month!... I’m all tuckered out. Luckily, I always come prepared. Come grab a seat by the fire and share some of this fine rotgut whiskey… well, tolerable rotgut whiskey, after the first mouthful, anyway…


I’ve got oodles of things to share with you. To start with, my new western Redding’s Fandango is now available anywhere you find good books. I’ve also got a pile of free tales and novels for you to flip through—go ahead, take what you like. I’ve got an update about American Quarter Horses, the ‘horse that won the West’, as well as a report about the types and quality of foodstuffs and viddles that folks in the Old West had to put up with in the 1850s. I’ve found a documentary about an 1885 massacre of Chinese laborers in Rock Springs, as well as a recipe for that cowboy’s favorite, Whipping Cream Biscuits.


Hold up now, your glass is empty. I’m glad you’re likin’ that whiskey. Settle back, enjoy the evening, and share what you know. Please don’t be shy. As my ol’ grandpa used to say, ‘otherwise, you’ll be as popular as a wet dog at a parlor social’.

 

 

Redding’s Fandango now on Kindle, iBooks, Smashwords

Thank you to everyone who picked up a copy of Redding’s Fandango – I sure do hope you enjoyed it. The book is also now also available at Kindle, iBooks, Google Books, and so on.

Here’s a start:


Don’t forget, you can still grab a copy direct from me – an extra special edition containing exclusive content and a story epilogue not available from other retailers. (By the way, this special edition is delivered by Bookfunnel, and readable on any device). You can grab your copy here:

https://nickbrumbywesterns.com/reddings-fandango/

   

 

Free summer adventures

There’s nothing like settling back with a good book on a long lazy summer evening. Here’s a list of free historical adventures that give you an excuse to put your feet up and dive in. This list includes westerns, mysteries, military, detective mysteries, suspense, action and adventure, and thrillers. And don’t forget, help yourself – they are all free!

Here’s a couple of titles to whet your interest:

  • Coming Home, by Tommie Wendall
  • The Gulch Run Gangster, by Cate Touryan
  • Songbird in the Marsh, by Jeanne Gehret
  • A Fado for the River, by Geoffrey Wells

Click here to get your free books!

https://books.bookfunnel.com/summerfree/ivt2qepmmy

 

 

American Quarter Horse

Heavily muscled, hardy, and acutely intelligent, the American Quarter Horse was the horse that won the West. Reputed to be the oldest all-American breed, the Quarter Horse was essential to frontier life for a very good reason––it could do almost everything. For this reason, it is also known as the world’s most versatile and most popular breed of horse. Find out more here:

https://nickbrumbywesterns.com/american-quarter-horse/

 

 

More great reading

Historical fiction lets you escape the humdrum every day and fly straight back to the past. Here’s a great selection of historical fiction straight from the imaginations of some of the best up and coming writers in their field. And – they are all absolutely free. Dive in!

Here’s a couple of titles to whet your interest:

  • Yesteryear’s Ruin, by Jane M Bell
  • An Audience with the King, by Kat Caldwell
  • The Imagination Room, by Elizabeth Borae
  • 12 Days of Courting Miss Thomas, by Dani Renee

Click here to get your free books!

https://storyoriginapp.com/to/gFiwDzu

 


Did you know?

Not surprisingly, food in the Old West ranged from barely tolerable right down to almost lethal. Cooking was simple, often restricted to what you brought with you on your prairie schooner, such as ovens, frying pans and roasting spits. Food would have been restricted to whatever meat or greens were available during that season. Typical foods for a frontier family in the 1850s could include calves' heads, boiled mutton, or soused calves' feet. For dessert, you might get pudding. Breakfast might have been the exception, with corn bread, stew, boiled eggs, fried potatoes and omelets brightening the table. Cowboys on the range typically ate canned beans, rock-hard biscuits, dried meat, dried fruit and coffee.

 

 

Documentary: Chinese Massacre – Main St, Wyoming

Meiguo means 'beautiful country' in Chinese. The name 'United States' is literally translated as Meiguo and was a dream destination for many Chinese laborers back in the days of the Old West. However, this Main Street documentary explores events that occurred in 1885 near Rock Springs in Wyoming when violence erupted, and Chinese laborers were killed. It followed a similar tragedy fourteen years earlier during the 1871 Massacre of Chinese in Los Angeles.

Find out more about the Main Street Massacre in this great PBS documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjJztXmn4nU

 

 

Cowboy Campfire Cooking: Whipping Cream Biscuits

Two ingredients and no rise time! Just grab yourself some self-rising flour, heavy whipping cream, and you’ve got yourself a feast. Leave your salt, baking powder and other ingredients aside as cowboy chef Kent Rollins shows us how to make delicious Whipping Cream Biscuits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JChsJKysZfs

 


 

Get to know Sheriff Sol Redding

Grab your copy of the brand-new western Redding’s Fandango right here:

https://nickbrumbywesterns.com/reddings-fandango/


How it all started 

Get your free and exclusive copy of my first western Redding’s Maverick here: https://BookHip.com/NGKAHW

 

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Happy trails,

 

Nick

 

 

 

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