Twenty and counting.

[colonelrowe]

I want to read at least a hundred books this year, but here in the twelfth week I'm already falling behind. But, so far:

Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shape Our Nation by Mitch Horowitz. 2009. Bantam Books, New York.

Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express by Christopher Corbett. 2003.

Comments

[colonelrowe]

Sure. It's okay "pop history," and seems to be a pretty good overview of the subject. Corbett definitely writes more like a mainstream magazine feature writer than an engaged historian though, so be aware of that. In fact, the article he has in the current, I think, American Heritage is pretty much this book boiled down to five or six pages. What it's really got going for it is his bifurcation strategy--the first half of the volume is a short history of the express and the second is a short history of the legend of the express. It's repetitious in spots, and lacks the depth of a truly scholarly work, but it's fun, interesting, and seems mostly free of errors.

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