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Authors: Red L. Jameson

Tags: #Romance, #Time Travel, #Historical

Cowboy of Mine (31 page)

 

 

A Note about the Glimpse Time-Travel Series

 

O
ften, history is taught with a clear beginning and end. In a class titled, The History of Western Civilization, it would usually begin with Homer and might have an ending around the Industrial Revolution. It is almost always taught with linear projections—you learn about events in a certain year, work your way forward, then end so many years in the future.

It wasn’t until I was in graduate school that I began to learn history by skipping around, much like a time-traveler would. In order to understand why the Highland Guard in South Carolina fought so urgently
for
their British monarch in 1776, one needed to understand why they fought so bravely
against
that similar monarchy in the Battle of Culloden just thirty years before. I’d never had more fun than when I bounced through time, absorbing an event in a particular era to see it shine through a hundred years later, or understanding one happening, only to reexamine it through another aspect of time.

When we are taught history with a linear projection, we see it through the lens of the latter era. I know I did. I often saw the Enlightenment period through the optics of the Victorian. But they were vastly different phases of time, often having varying roles for women, men, and children as well as diverse social mores. It is when we prance about in time, I believe, that we can see history more clearly for what it is.

The
Glimpse
Time-Travel series will jump, dance, and sprint through different eras of time. My greatest desire is to entertain you, so you feel a resonating similarity with my characters, and in the end maybe come away from the experience thinking no matter what the time, no matter the individuals involved, people have more similarities than differences, more hope than despair, and more love than hate.

 

 

 

The author wishes to acknowledge...

 

Emily Dickenson for her poem, “’Hope’ is the thing with feathers,” 314

Robert Burns, “Auld Lang Syne”

All Apple® products, especially MacBook Pro® laptop

All ‘90s Big Haired Bands

Dan Brown

Regarding the research of this book, thanks to historians...

Elizabeth James

James Axtell

Jane E. Simonsen

And as I’ve mentioned before, it does seem to take a small army to create a book. I’d like to thank Nhys Glover, Màiri Norris, encouraging Lana Williams, Mari, Bethany, and my cheering friends and family.

Lastly, for this book I tried baking many different types of bread and listened to Celtic Christmas songs for months. I sang “Auld Lang Syne,” in Scots no less, for even longer. To my family for putting up with me, thank you!!!

 

 

 

Dedication

 

For the fellas in my life who wear their hearts on their sleeves: Reid, always the sunshine of my life. And for my brother, James Alrick, whom I miss so much.

 

 

Also by Red L. Jameson

 

Enemy of Mine

Highlander of Mine

 

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