Frontier &
Fairgrounds

Frontier and Fairgrounds blends the grit of the American West with the glitter of the golden age of the circus. From wide-open plains and rugged mountain passes to the bright lights and shadowed corners of the big top, these are stories of survival, spectacle, and the search for something more. Saddle up and step inside to discover the dreams—and dangers—that lived in the spotlight and in the shadows.

The Sullivan Sisters and the Sin of Letty Grant: A Sullivan Sisters' Tale

Madame Sue Soderburg stopped, her face drawn, a cigarette burning in between her fingers despite the early hour. “They’re framing me for Roberta’s murder.”

Lou Sadler

Jun 1821 min read

🐦‍⬛ The Haunting of Black Hollow Ranch

On the mantle, a photograph in a tarnished frame showed a stern man, two children, and a woman with a hauntingly blank stare.

Lou Sadler

Jun 188 min read

The Midnight Wrangler

The canyon stretched before them under a half-moon. Cattle shuffled along the dusty trail below. Someone was stealing her livestock again.

Lou Sadler

Jun 115 min read

Letters from the Prairie

It is with reverence and a hush of winter stillness that I present to you this series of letters from Mrs. Marian Tate—a young widow dwelling alone in the Kansas Territory during that first long, uncertain season of 1855.

Lou Sadler

Jun 28 min read

Letters from Sagebrush Ridge

Sagebrush Ridge Territory of Kansas September to April 1855 The wind whispered secrets through the tallgrass of the Kansas prairie,...

Lou Sadler

Jun 17 min read

Dust and Deliverance

Her badge caught the sun just as a rider thundered down Main Street, raising a cloud of red clay behind him. Mercy recognized the horse before the man: the gray Appaloosa with a split ear. Wild Rye, Everett Tate's mare.

Lou Sadler

May 285 min read

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Frontier & Fairgrounds

The Sullivan Sisters and the Sin of Letty Grant: A Sullivan Sisters' Tale

🐦‍⬛ The Haunting of Black Hollow Ranch

The Midnight Wrangler

Letters from the Prairie

Letters from Sagebrush Ridge

Dust and Deliverance

Frontier &
Fairgrounds