The following story was written by MW Contributor John Davis and about his 3X great uncle, John Crittenden Davis …. Enjoy! The mystery described below is the wonder of seeing today’s Yellowstone National Park region for the first time, long before it became the Park it is today. My 3X …
Code Warriors, by Stephen Budiansky Alfred A. Knopf: New York Book Review by John Davis The arts and sciences need for codes and code breaking are as old as man himself. The secret world they augur is one of mystery, but as Stephen Budiansky points out, one of law as …
Create Your Own Secret Language, by David J. Peterson; Odddot.com: New York; $12.99, paperback Book Review by John Davis Kids who have been at home a while know one thing. Their brothers and sisters are creeps who breathe their air! They want to be alone! They want to talk to …
Seducing and Killing Nazis, by Sophie Poldermans, SWW Press: Haarlem, the Netherlands; $25.65 paperback Book Review by John Davis Only girls, they learned at home never to discriminate against others. Because, as their parents counselled, ‘All humanity is equal’. Such simple life guidance was catastrophically upended when violent, white supremacist Nazi …
Book Review by John Davis Eerie Alabama, by Alan Brown; History Press: Charleston SC; $21.99 paperback. Book review appeared earlier in the Decatur Daily Available on Amazon Wandering off the main highways of Alabama can be pleasurable. Should I not also add mysterious, strange, intriguing and delightful? Yes, all those …
Who Made this Mysterious Fort? by John Davis Early settlers moving across the Appalachian Mountains from our eastern coastal colonies couldn’t imagine what they encountered. In the thickly forested, astoundingly beautiful region which later became eastern Tennessee, they discovered a stone walled ‘fort’. Here, at the confluence of two rivers …
Book Review by John Davis “From Holmes to Sherlock,” by Mattias Bostrom; Mysterious Press: New York Available on Amazon How did it happen? How did a series of stories about an eccentric detective from the early 1890s, published in a British magazine, come to be a world shaking modern television …
Book Review by John Davis The Secret Parts of Fortune, by Ron Rosenbaum; Random House: New York; 799 pages, hardback; $29.95.(Available on Amazon) Mystery and conspiracy are guaranteed to arouse the interest of the average American reader. Think of any of the several real world mysteries you’ve read about over …
Wonderful Adventures in the Old West Article Written by John Davis When we lived out West my three boys, my wife Jane and I liked to go on “Mighty Adventures.” Trips to secret places, ghost towns, old forts, abandoned gold mines, and former settlements of the early pioneers and Indians …
Mystery in the PunchBowl Article by John Davis What honor do we render a Medal of Honor recipient? Would we leave him in an unmarked grave? This is actually the case. Such a scandal calls for action. Read this through and you can help! Willibald C. Bianchi, of New Ulm, …
