I do have a book I've been working on for about 30 years. Maybe it will get done someday.
I will say the chapters I have on January 1880 and the winter of 1861-62 are pretty D**n good though. I might put them on here some time. There is a lot of data on both of those thanks to pure luck in a lot of ways.
One part I absolutely love is a newspaper account I found from Christmastime in 1861 and it talks about the community getting together around bon fires and doing sleigh rides. Just magical.