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Curt Locklear

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Curt Locklear is an award-winning author, historian, teacher, education consultant, and public speaker. He has presented talks from Texas to Louisiana to Mississippi to Georgia to Minnesota. He generally plays his guitar and banjo at his speaking engagements and enlivens the presentation with songs, stories and jokes.

His second novel, Splintered, won the International Laramie Award for Civil War and Western fiction.

His banjo picking is featured at the beginning of the hit PBS TV show, “The Daytripper.”

He is a historian of elements of the Civil War west of the Mississippi – the Trans-Mississippi. He has presented to thousands.

He is related to the first wing-walker, Ormer Locklear. His father, Jack Locklear, trained a horse in the Kentucky ...more

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	Scrooge and Cratchit: Detectives, A Dickensian Christmas Mystery 3.98 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asunder: A Novel of the Civil War 4.16 avg rating — 68 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Splintered: A Civil War Saga 4.70 avg rating — 37 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reconciled: A Civl War Saga (Asunder Series Book 3) 4.48 avg rating — 23 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Treasure and Murder in Ireland 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scrooge and Cratchit, Detectives (2)- The Dark Malevolence 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of Texas: Short Stories, an Anthology of Texas Fiction by Rebecca Nolen (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Caroline Cao (contributor), Kate Mock (contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rising Waters: The Woodlands Writing Guild 2017 (WWG Annual Anthology Book 2) by Woodlands Writing Guild, Paul Bussard, Alberto Arcia (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rising Waters: The Woodlands Writing Guild 2017 by Woodlands Writing Guild, Curt Locklear (Goodreads Author), Jody T. Morse really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of the Forest: The Woodlands Writers Guild Anthology 2016 by Authors of the Woodlands Writers Guild, Curt Locklear (Goodreads Author), Rusty Rhoad (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“seamstress skills, to turn her hand at restitching torn wounds. Two soldiers had lived initially in agony caused by weeping”
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