Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

by Kathryn Miles

Between 1990 and 2020, eight FBI agents and six park rangers were killed in the line of duty, a staggering number when you consider that FBI agents outnumber rangers by a scale of ten to one.

Holy shit. This is wild.

I have also come to believe that telling other people’s stories is one of the most important ways to build empathy and connection in a world that can often feel divisive and factioned.

Amen sister!

Thoreau only briefly acknowledged, lamenting in his essay “Walking”: “How womankind, who are confined to the house still more than men, stand it I do not know; but I have grounds to suspect that most of them do not stand it at all.”

We don’t stand it at all. Ha

In 1884, Edward H. Clarke, a physician and one of Pickering’s Harvard colleagues, published Sex and Education. In this book, Clarke maintained that both physical and educational exertion came with a heavy price for women, including, but not limited to, uterine disease, hysteria, chorea (an involuntary movement disorder), increased menstrual cramps and hemorrhaging, along with “a dropping out of maternal instincts, and an appearance of Amazonian coarseness and force.” For that reason alone, Clarke contended that women should be kept inside.

Oh my. I hate it when my maternal instincts drop out when I am outside.

The story made repeated mention of Claudia Brenner, the author of Eight Bullets who had lost her partner and had braved the brutal trek out of the woods while nursing her own gunshot wounds.

Book to read

In his book Legacy of the Yosemite Mafia, Berkowitz

To read.