John Walker Ross is a graduate of Florida State and lives somewhere in the Florida Panhandle where he has variously toiled in advertising and legal publishing for the last three decades. He is interested in everything but his only known addictions are vintage rock and roll and women’s tennis. His favorite writers are Tolstoy, Henry James, Phillip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and Anita Loos, but he no longer tries to write like all of them at once.
John blogs about Pop Culture, his shady past and other life-affirming things at theroundplaceinthemiddle.com.
The last generation has seen something of a boom in historical narratives that focus on small events with potentially large implications (the latter often inflated in the inevitable subtitle, which in this case is Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End).