There and Back Again, or “Why are you HERE?” (part 1: Kansas)

Ah, research. Ah, road trip.

Ah, the joys of getting your research in your road trip!

I’m currently working on the first book of The Devil’s West, which is a divergent history/”weird west” fantasy set in the early 1800′s, in what would have been the Louisiana Purchase. Much of the action in the first book takes place in what-would-have-been west Kansas and eastern Colorado – specifically, the short-grass prairie and high plains. And while Google Earth and second-person notes are incredibly usef...