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Welcome to Broken Lance Enterprises
I create and distribute books about history as a way to raise money for historic preservation and reenacting. I'm also very much involved in helping to put on various living history and reenacting events. A new page has been added to the site to include a special report on the event in McDowell, Va., in May. It's on the navigation bar to the left, "Harper's Weekly". It is written as if it were a report for Harper's Weekly, and includes text by Joe Bordonaro and a sketch of the battle on Sitlington Hill by Art Stone. Hope you enjoy it.
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Now available, by popular demand. A reprint of How to Camp Out, published in 1877,144 pages with an enormous amount of information on how the soldiers camped and marched. Affordably priced at $12, including postage, and remember that all the "profits" from this book and the other Civil War titles goes to battlefield preservation. This book answers a lot of the questions living historians and reenactors have had about day-to-day details of soldiers on campaign. Did shelter halves ever come with poles? Was there ever a blanket-rubber blanket combination? Right down to the best haircut. When John M. Gould took his Civil War infantry experiences and converted them into a how-to guide for young people looking to go on extended hikes, he surely had no idea we'd all find this such a treasure chest of hard-to-find lore in the next millennium.
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A reluctant warrior from South Carolina faces life and death in the Confederate army. Find out what war was like for those who sought no glory and owned no slaves, but did their duty by their comrades. History-heavy fiction based on extensive research and so detailed you'll smell the gunpowder. Brother William's War makes plausible what many can't understand: How could men fight so honorably on behalf of a cause that would enslave other men?
"Am desperately trying to put the book down and get some sleep."
Doug Cooper, historian, Idaho
"... Watson's book is recommended as a good fast-paced read."
Civil War News - Newspaper
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Now available, just for reenactors and living historians ... 'Seize the Day!' A guide to wringing more satisfaction from your Civil War reenacting experience. A practical guide to activities and ideas any living historian can deploy to take a Civil War weekend away from battle-beer-ball and toward experiencing the daily life of a soldier. It breaks down what they did and why they did it and explains how to incorporate that into weekend reenacting. You do not need to buy one new piece of gear to have a better experience. If you want to get to where you thought you were going when you first joined up, this is the book that at will get you there. It's also a good guide for anyone thinking about taking up Civil War reenacting as a hobby. Affordably priced at $12.
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Yeah, not a Civil War title. But it's a book for guys. Tom Swain knew he'd never be anybody in his home town. He got in a scrape, left, became a success, then had to come home, where people figured he'd been off being a bum because that's what they expected. So he's still a loser, unless he can teach Folly Islanders to sing a new tune. And that will happen when pigs sing.
$19.95, plus shipping 244 pages
Find out more about Swain's Folly by reading some samples.
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Excerpts from Swain's Folly to show you what it's like.
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