Back to School - Then and Now by Paty Jager

As a writer of historical western romance, I have an arsenal of reference/research books on my bookshelves.  There is one in particular that I find myself using time and again. A replica of the 1897 Sears Roebuck & Co. Catalogue.  It not only shows me what things back in the 1800's looked like, it gives me prices when a character goes to a mercantile and purchases something.



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