The Mansion on the Hill IN MEDIAS RES   The man’s head bled into the garden soil. The rest of his body sprawled strangely, oddly angled on the flagstone patio. The revolver rested just out of reach, near his left hand. Dahlias bloomed with reds, pinks, whites, yellows and crowned the poor fellow’s head. His […]

Saving is Not Crazy My mother was born on a German speaking dairy farm in Moose Lake, Minnesota. She was the third of four siblings to survive to adulthood. She was twelve, when her mother died at childbirth. My grandfather grieved for his immigrant wife and the family stopped speaking German. Her duties increased from […]

My Cousin’s Anecdote   Fritz leaned against the outside wall of the barbershop and leisurely viewed the cars driving on Main Street. Hans pulled up to the curb in a new cherry red Mustang convertible with white leather interior, and the top down. He parked and waved at his cousin. “Beautiful car Hans, how did […]

I Travel a Lot I travel a lot. It takes up most of my time. I always fly, solo. My territory stretches from the mountains of Central Mexico to Northern Colorado in the spring and the reverse in the fall. My interests are insects, berries and sex. My journey is perilous. I face and flee […]

Ken Proper will sign books at Holiday in the Rockies at the Historic Depot with Steamboat Creates om December 2, 9, 16, 2023. Lots of gift ideas for the holidays.

Harriet Freiberger and me, Ken Proper will be signing our books,Then & Now: A History of Steamboat Springs and A Diary by Victims of Love, Banished in 1914 to Steamboat Springs, Colorado at Off the Beaten Path bookstore from 11:00 to 2:00 Saturday November 25, 2023. That day is Small Business Day with a one-day-only […]

The East Routt Library District, better known as Bud Werner Memorial Library in Steamboat Springs, Colorado is sponsoring Dagny McKinley and me, Ken Proper with a 25% cash match for the Colorado History Fund competitive grant for the sequel to Then & Now A History of Steamboat Springs which hopefully will be Then & Now […]

A Diary by Victims of Love Banished in 1914 to Steamboat Springs, Colorado A novel by Ken Proper   Fly fishing was therapy for a young Brit banished in 1914 to a booming, small, mountain town in western Colorado. Julius Brandon found it as a sort of mental house cleaning. He felt Henry David Thoreau’s […]