The battles at Pyramid Lake
'Quintus Hopper of Nevada' series: It was 1860 and white men rallied to rout the Northern Paiute. Everything about their attack was wrong - and many paid for it with their lives.
Quintus Hopper of Nevada, published in January 2022, is a historical novel that follows the epic and peculiar life of a frontier newspaper typesetter. As part of my research I made extensive use of newspaper archives and, in this series, I’ll share some of my often surprising findings. Here are history, commentaries and contemporary newspaper articles a…
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