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Category Archives: journals
The spring Overland Journal cover
I’ve been saving this image for years, just waiting for the right Overland Journal to come along. The focus of the spring issue is Council Bluffs, Iowa, the site of the upcoming annual conference, but none of the articles specifically … Continue reading
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Tagged cover design, Library of Congress, Overland Journal
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Catching up
Yikes! I can’t believe it’s been so long since I last updated. Here are few things I’ve been working on. I continue to be proud of the new design for Overland Journal—it even inspired another quarterly to take on a … Continue reading
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Tagged cover design, dust jacket, Editing and Book Design, endpapers, Overland Journal, text design
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Happy feedback on a cover
From the editor of Overland Journal, on the winter 2015 issue: The cover is totally stunning! Here’s the caption on the image: Star Peak, at 9,863 feet, is the highest peak in the Humboldt Range in Pershing County, north-central Nevada. … Continue reading
Grrrrr
The winter issue of Overland Journal is at press! One of the articles, “A New Eldorado in California, 1849,” is a chapter from a book that I worked on last year. California Through Russian Eyes, 1806–1848, compiled, translated, and edited … Continue reading
A little twist on the cover
Inspired by the covers of women’s magazines, I let the subject of the cover illustration take center stage, blocking out part of the masthead. It’s a glorious image!
St. Louis steamboating
Here is a peek at the cover of the summer 2012 Overland Journal, which uses a scene from St. Louis circa 1874 to illustrate an article on the importance of steamboats in the overland era. The image was quite big … Continue reading
Library of Congress Has Us Covered
For the fall issue of OJ, we used another image from the Library of Congress for the cover. Since the the main article for this issue is “The Old Spanish Trail: John N. Macomb’s 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of … Continue reading
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Finalmente!
We’ve been working with a whirlwind of Spanish the past couple of weeks. After much hard work, the files have been sent to the printer. Santa Clara University professor Rose Marie Beebe, one of our favorite collaborators, asked us to … Continue reading
Issue no. 1 of a new journal
Seems like I’ve been posting a lot of covers lately! Here’s another one, for a new journal just published by the Friends of the Little Bighorn Battlefield, called Ghost Herder. The striking cover photo was taken by Bob Reece, the … Continue reading
An afternoon of history with a Spanish professor
As she answered the phone, all that could be heard was a dog barking, followed by a breathless “hello?” Laughing, she apologized as she took care of the dog and returned to the call, lively in every word and excited … Continue reading →