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Author describes archival trips and location scouting in Texas to shape historical novel set in 1918
3426319 · May 21, 2025
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Jeanette said she used archival research, old newspapers and back-road photography in Texas to recreate setting and context for her historical novel Pictures, noting that some towns have changed and that local archives provide one-of-a-kind materials.
Jeanette told the Missoula audience she set her novel Pictures in Texas because of family ties and because older characters in the story were people she knew from that region.
She described visiting the Texas State Library and Archives, handling original postcards under gloves and using archival newspapers and insurance maps…
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