There was song and dance and sometimes something to celebrate like a birth or a wedding. Travelers didn’t know what they would face from day to day. The 2000-mile journey west was treacherous, grueling, and so, so dangerous. I’ve had to learn about Salem, Massachusetts during the witch trials, Biblical Jerusalem, the American women’s suffrage movement, and most recently I had to learn about life on the Oregon Trail in order to write The Duchess of Idaho.
I tend to choose historical eras for my fiction that I know nothing about. And quite frankly, I’m a history nerd who loves learning new things. Yes, I make more work for myself because I have to research a whole new era for each book I write, but I love the challenge of incorporating each new era into my fiction. Of course, I would make my life a lot easier if I would concentrate on just one historical period, but what fun is that? One of the reasons I love writing historical fiction is because I get to learn about the various era of history I’m writing about. Learning About History is a Good Reason to Write Historical Fiction
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