Readers' Comments
"Alan Houston tells the story of an ordinary man who, with half of his small New Hampshire town, volunteers to fight in an extraordinary conflict. The author deftly uses correspondence and diaries — written in quintessential Yankee prose — to transport the reader over 140 years back in time to experience this most important of American wars from the inside out."
—William P. Veillette, Executive Director, New Hampshire Historical Society
Alan Fraser Houston, author of Keep Up Good Courage: A Yankee Family and the Civil War
About the Author
Alan Fraser Houston graduated from Amherst College and Boston University School of Medicine. He served in the United States Navy as a flight surgeon from 1970 to 1972. He and his family settled in Sandwich, New Hampshire, near the family homestead, where they lived for over two decades before moving to Durango, Colorado.
Dr. Houston is the author of historical articles that have appeared in California History, the Pioneer (Journal of the Society of California Pioneers), Montana, the Magazine of Western History, and the "Excursions" of the Sandwich Historical Society. He is currently working on a new biography/naval history: Rear Admiral Cadwalader Ringgold (1802-1867), The Last of the Old Navy: Global Explorer, Gold Rush Surveyor, and Civil War Blockader. He is a Life Member of the Sandwich, NH Historical Society, a member of the New Hampshire Historical Society, and a member of the La Plata County, Colorado Historical Society. He maintains a lecture schedule throughout the country, with special focus on New England, New Mexico, and California. Lecture topics include spotlights on artists, surveyors, engineers and military figures from the Gold Rush period, and the Civil War era. He is currently available for speaking engagements.
Please to arrange for Dr. Houston to address your organization.