“Sometimes the smoke from the factories and riverboats and trains would obscure the night sky entirely. But the town's industrial breath was blowing somewhere else tonight, and so the Armstrong house was bathed in starlight. Nell studied the little white specks, like glittering dust on black velvet, and she asked, "You boys ever wonder what it'd be like to be somewhere else?” SmokeCivil WarFactoriesNight SkyKentuckyTrainsIndustrialPaducahRiverboats Book:Hardtack: A Civil War Story Source: Hardtack: A Civil War Story
“Fort McNamara stood in the Arkansas River Valley near the Indian Territory border, its citizens declaring it to be the last white civilization for hundreds of miles. But civilization was an ironic choice of words for the place as far as Kit was concerned.” RomanceGamblerRancherSaloonBordelloRiverboatsCard Player Book:His Most Wanted Source: His Most Wanted