by Milana Marsenich | Jun 12, 2025 | Articles
Mary MacLane was a western woman like no other. She believed her voice mattered. In 1901 she wrote a manuscript, I Await the Devil’s Coming. In 1902 a Chicago publisher picked it up, changed the title to The Story of Mary MacLane, and published it. It sold nearly...
by Milana Marsenich | Jul 22, 2024 | Book Reviews
“El Paso, you’re looking good!” I loved this book. It is tender, real, and full of courage. On a whim, a young woman gets spontaneously tossed into a world foreign to all she knows: the making of a beauty queen. Imagine two flamboyant men with a dream. Imagine a...
by Milana Marsenich | Mar 13, 2024 | Articles
From the Archives in Butte, Montana: America Reads Last summer I was at the Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives to research a book that I am writing about Mary MacLane, Butte’s Wild Woman and Famed Literary Woman. I am lucky because Mary MacLane has been well-documented....
by Milana Marsenich | Mar 6, 2024 | Articles
While in Butte, Montana, conducting research for a book I’m writing, Mary MacLane: Butte’s Wild Woman and Her Wooden Heart, I came upon an article about The Queen of Palmistry, Madame Belmont. She had been visiting Butte for the last month and had aroused interest and...
by Milana Marsenich | Oct 31, 2023 | Articles
I am really excited about this book review by DK Marley, that The Historical Fiction Company did for Idaho Madams. Idaho Madams is nonfiction in a category called Popular History. Researching and finding information for this book was really difficult because no one...
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