by Templa Melnick | Jul 22, 2014 | Colorado history
On family road trips as a child, my mind would be a hundred years away as I contemplated what it was like to be rattling over the sagebrush in a covered wagon. Once, in a rare moment with my grandmother, she told me that she rode from Missouri to South Dakota in a...
by Templa Melnick | Jul 15, 2014 | Templa's Trivia
Good Things Come in 3’s! No one ever really thinks that life imitates art… until it happens to them. I created a character in my novel, Emma, who is the mother of seven sons. The inspiration for Emma came from my own lineage of amazing, strong,...
by Templa Melnick | Jun 3, 2014 | Colorado history
I’m a history geek. I admit it. I just can’t seem to help myself. So when my husband and I stumbled upon a museum that had recreated an entire town, we couldn’t resist. Actually, I couldn’t resist – and my husband is a really patient man. Museum of the Mountain West,...