Idaho Madams

Idaho Madams

I didn’t mean for my popular history book, Idaho Madams, to come out so close to my historical novel, Beautiful Ghost. But that is what happened. I am excited about Beautiful Ghost, and I’m excited about Idaho Madams. I love the cover. I love the covers of...
Molly B’Damn in Murray, Idaho

Molly B’Damn in Murray, Idaho

Molly B’Damn in Murray, Idaho On a fall trip from Polson, Montana to Walla Walla, Washington for a Women Writing the West conference, I stopped by Wallace, Idaho, one of Idaho’s famous mining towns. It is also one of the West’s most famous Red Light Districts. I was...
Peace on Earth and The Gift of Literature

Peace on Earth and The Gift of Literature

Peace on earth. It’s what I wish for as each New Year comes around. Yet, as wars continue across the world, we seem further and further from peace. There are wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen, to name a few. Russia just seized three Ukrainian Naval Vessels...
Courage and the West Revisted

Courage and the West Revisted

Since it is the end of the year, the time of year that people often share gifts as demonstrations of love and caring, I’m posting this piece that I first wrote for Don Jimmy Reviews. Books make great gifts. They transport people to other times and places,...

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