Membership Meeting April

Peter Bronson speaks about his latest book and how the midwest was won.

Promised Land: How the Midwest Was Won

A thrilling story about the earliest settlers along the Ohio River whose valiant battle for survival opened the Northwest Territory. They faced poverty, starvation, and torture and abduction by hostile Indians and the British. Read about the secret society known as the Knights of the Golden Circle that conspired to create a slave empire and assassinate President Lincoln. Find out how Cincinnati saved Texas in 1836. Learn about the mysterious Mound Builders who created amazing earthworks 3,000 years ago. This is exciting history that reads like a novel.

Peter Bronson has been a newsman in Michigan, Arizona and Ohio. He was an award-winning editor and columnist at the Tucson Citizen and the Cincinnati Enquirer. He grew up in Michigan and graduated from Michigan State University, working as a busboy, bartender, car valet, pizza chef, construction laborer and snow-plow driver. He has been a host and producer on weekly TV news shows, and served as a volunteer and board member for nonprofits that aid neglected and abused children. He fell in love with books at age 7 when his single mother could not afford to fix a broken TV and dragged him to the library. After his career in newspapers he became a publisher, editor, author and ghostwriter with his company Chilidog Press LLC, which has published dozens of titles (www.chilidogpress.com). When not writing, editing or reading books, he leads Bible groups for his church, plays golf and works on classic cars. He lives with his wife in Milford, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati.