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Last few days of World Watercolour Month July 2025 #WWM25 #WorldWatercolorMonth #WorldWatercolorMonth2025 #art #painting #watercolor #watercolour and sometimes #ink #scannedimage #nofilter

Day 18, prompts "rigid" and Sepia. I painted a picture of some boulders in a forest, something out my memories of hiking around Estes Park, CO. The boulders are a paler sepia mix, some full dark sepia marking edges, cracks, and other shadows. The background is thick with tree trunks in light brown and olive greens, to show distance and give context and atmosphere. The foreground appears sandy, but there are red flowers sprouting up around the rocks. Text on the bottom reads: "2025-07-18 // WWM25 18/21" on the left, '"rigid" + Sepia' in the middle and my sigil on the right.

A quiet moment in a trail kitchen 🔥
Pot over fire, cattle lowing nearby, and the sky stretching endlessly.
This is Day 20 of the WWM25 watercolor challenge, based on the prompts “kitchen” and Cerulean Blue.
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A joyful burst of sound and color!
This watercolor bird is caught mid-performance, in lush Opera Rose and Neutral Tint, as part of Day 19 of the WWM25 challenge.
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Grilled, golden, and totally irresistible 🌽 Here’s my Day 21 painting for WWM25: two steaming-hot elotes in Indian Yellow. Prompts: street food + Indian Yellow. #wwm25 #streetfoodart #elote #indianyellow #watercolorfood #dailywatercolor

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Step back in time to the harsh, thrilling, and often-overlooked realities of frontier life in the American West.
#FrontierLife #AmericanWest #PioneerHistory #WestwardExpansion #SurvivalStorieshttps://treasinfo.blogspot.com/2025/08/7-brutal-truths-about-frontier-life.html

August 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM Everybody can reply

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Book Review: The Warrior’s Path by Louis L’Amour

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Book Review: The Warrior’s Path by Louis L’Amour — Joe's Notes

I will definitely be trying out more Louis L'Amour books and I highly recommend The Warrior's Path.

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April 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM Everybody can reply

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August 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM Everybody can reply

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August 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM Everybody can reply

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Book Review: Treasure Mountain by Louis L'Amour

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Book Review: Treasure Mountain by Louis L'Amour — Joe's Notes

To get closure about his last days Tell and Orrin start their journey in New Orleans but when Orrin goes missing Tell starts to piece together the clues to finding out where their father went and what...

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December 21, 2024 at 6:24 PM Everybody can reply

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August 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM Everybody can reply

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A 4-year-old boy's journey from Cincinnati to the Alaskan wilderness in the 1950s. Roy Taylor's captures frontier life, family resilience, and finding courage.#BookSky #Alaska #Memoir #FrontierLife #Courage #BookRecommendation

The Road to Courage: A Boy’s Adventures on America’s Last Frontier | Koehler Books Publishing

Set in the mid-twentieth century, The Road to Courage is narrated by a young boy as he journeys with his family to new and wild territory on the Alaskan frontier, a land where life’s priority is…

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August 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM Everybody can reply

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Author Sara Ellie MacKenzie

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Today's #WomenAuthors Series looks at Willa Cather. An #AvidReader she wrote about the experiences of immigration and the #AmericanMidwest
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Book Review: The Warrior’s Path by Louis L’Amour

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Book Review: The Warrior’s Path by Louis L’Amour — Joe's Notes

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Book Review: Treasure Mountain by Louis L'Amour

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Book Review: Treasure Mountain by Louis L'Amour — Joe's Notes

To get closure about his last days Tell and Orrin start their journey in New Orleans but when Orrin goes missing Tell starts to piece together the clues to finding out where their father went and what...

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Book Review: Jubal Sackett by Louis L' Amour

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Book Review: Jubal Sackett by Louis L' Amour — Joe's Notes

Jubal Sackett is a badass and this book was awesome. It is exactly what I want out of a Western genre book. It is about survival in the harsh forests of America. Jubal starts out as a lone wolf and en...

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🧺 In 1820s Illinois, laundry was boiled, beaten, and bleached—no washboards, just muscle. Clothes were scrubbed with lye, rinsed in chamber pot “lye,” and whitened with indigo. The women who did it? Tough as nails.
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Washday in the 1820s: Laundry on the Illinois Frontier

In the 1820s, towns like Edwardsville, Illinois, and nearby St. Louis, doing the laundry was a day-long, backbreaking ordeal—nothing like our modern routines. And despite popular images, no one was scrubbing their clothe...

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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸

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DPL Archive post: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1023640 #Colorado #FrontierLife #Empire

June 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM Everybody can reply

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Book Review: Jubal Sackett by Louis L' Amour

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Angie Mangino

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Roy Taylor's memoir The Road to Courage is the story of a 4-year-old's journey from Cincinnati to the Alaskan frontier is beautifully told through a child's eyes.
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