ARTICLES BY KEITH DAHLBERG CONTRIBUTOR TO NEWS-PRESS
Book Review: 'A Darkness Lit By Heroes' by Doug Ammons
The late 1800s witnessed the development of the telegraph, telephone, electric lighting and power, all creating a world-wide demand for copper. Prospectors discovered huge amounts of copper ore around Butte, Montana, and its mines flourished. Among the largest were those grouped around the Speculator, interconnected by a maze of tunnels …
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BOOK REVIEW: 'The Tetradome Run' by Spencer Baum
What if President Nixon, in the 1970s, had signed a bill [he didn’t] — call it The Redemption Act — to fight the growing crime rate in America? It establishes the death penalty for first degree murder, and provides an escape clause. Those convicted can choose to reject “death by …
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BOOK REVIEW: EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON, by S.C. Gwynne
The Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History — The Comanche Indians had absolute power in the wide, high plains of North America, from what is now Kansas to northern Mexico. By the year 1800, the Mississippi River was the United States western boundary. France claimed most of the land …
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BOOK REVIEW: 'The Long Walk' by Slavomir Rawicz
It’s hard to believe that this a true story, yet hard to believe that it is not. The writer has describes in vivid detail how he led a group of political prisoners who escape from a Russian prisoners camp in northern Siberia. They must walk more than four thousand miles …
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'Under Orders' by Dick Francis
Sid Halley is a thirty-eight year old champion jockey, disabled in a racing accident that destroyed his left hand. He now wears an artificial forearm and is a free-lance racing “investigator.” As the story opens, he is attending the Cheltonham Gold Cup Day with his ex-father-in-law and friend, Charles Rowland.
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Book Review: 'Death of a Proud Union,' by Art Norlen
Author Art Norlen came to the Silver Valley at age nineteen in 1928, having already worked briefly in the Montana copper mines. Typically in those days, miners’ wages were three dollars per twelve-hour day. Organized strikes for higher wages were illegal until about 1933. Art worked as a miner, and …
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Book Review: 'Nine Dragons' by Michael Connelly
Harry Bosch is a Los Angeles police detective in mid-career, divorced, with a thirteen-year-old daughter living most of the year with her mother in Hong Kong. He has just been assigned to a new robbery/murder case in a mom-and-pop grocery in one of LA’s seedier neighborhoods.
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Book Review: 'The Lost City Of The Monkey God' by Douglas Preston
Hundreds of years before Columbus and other Europeans discovered America, large civilizations flourished and died here. The Aztecs ruled in what is now Mexico. Before them, the Maya culture dominated southern Mexico with their own language, architecture and writing. And somewhere in that time period, another culture lived in eastern …
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Book Review: 'Ride The High Lonesome' by Jay Storkson a western novel 2014
Ira Sparks is an ex-Texas Ranger who seeks a more peaceful existence on a ranch he owns in western Montana. An easy-going man, we first meet him riding his horse down the three day trip from the small, tight cabin he built at the upper end of his property, to …
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Book Review: 'The Mountain Between Us' by Charles Martin, 'A Survival Novel'
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Book Review: 'When Death Draws Near' by Carrie Stuart Parks
Gwen Marcy is a free-lance forensic artist, called to Pikeville, Kentucky, to help identify a serial rapist. The latest victim lies in a hospital bed, badly beaten and barely able to talk. The local sheriff also asks Gwen to help identify the decomposed body of a man found dead in …
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Book Review: THE CONFESSION by John Grisham
In the Northeast Texas town of Sloan, a high school cheerleader has gone missing without a trace.
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Book review: 'It's Me, Hannah' by Carleen Bunde
Hannah is an eight-year-old girl as the story opens with the sudden death of her mother in a gruesome auto accident in the town of Munich, North Dakota. Her only nearby relatives are her father, Johan, who is a Swedish immigrant farmer, and her maternal grandma, Lieula. But Munich is …
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Book Review: 'Blind Man's Bluff' by Sontag and Drew
Obviously, no book available to the public is going to be up to date on this subject. Never mind; this book is a vivid history of the Cold War years between USA and Russia, and their strenuous efforts to stay ahead of each other in submarine warfare capability. It has …
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