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March 27, 2019
My #1 Most Read Post–A Mysterious Woman Who Gave Her Life for Liberty
I discovered an astounding statistic the other day. You know I often write blogs about tough, stubborn, gritty women who beat the odds, improvised, adapted, overcame and helped build the country we love. Well, the #1 most read blog I’ve written is, of course, about one of these women–one from the Revolutionary War. Over 15,000 […]
March 20, 2019
Talk About Wired for Adventure–A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
I would like to thank reader and friend Jeannette Shields for tipping me off to this intriguing lady in defiance–a real one! I get so tired of the feminists making us feel like victims. We’re only victims if we choose that road. I’ve profiled many, many women who simply refused to accept their societal limits […]
March 13, 2019
Now I ain’t cheap, but I can be had.
Jack Colton : My minimum price for taking a stranded lady to a telephone is 400 dollars. Joan Wilder : Will you take 375 in traveler’s checks? Jack Colton : American Express? Joan Wilder : Of course. Jack Colton : You’ve got a deal. You probably recognize those lines from one fabulous romantic comedy, Romancing the Stone. So what does that have to do with […]
March 6, 2019
And Just Who Might Fiery Naomi be Based On?
Last week I gave you some thoughts on who and what inspired my character of Charles McIntyre. This week, I’d like to dish on his forever-love and my favorite heroine, Naomi Frink Miller McIntyre introduced in A Lady in Defiance. The middle sister between Rebecca and Hannah, Naomi has been called a guard dog. She […]
February 28, 2019
Who Were the Men Who Made Charles McIntyre?
I often get asked if any of my characters are based on an actual person. Sometimes, they are, sometimes they’re straight out of my imagination. I thought it would be fun to share with you today who I saw in my head when I was writing one of my favorite and most popular characters, Charles […]
February 20, 2019
The First Female Doctor in WY Wasn’t Well Received…by Women
Lilian Heath. Such a demure name. She was anything but. In the 1880s, Lilian’s pa got her a job assisting Dr. Thomas Maghee, the physician in the wide-open railroad town of Rawlins, WY. A petite little thing still in high school, Lilian was pretty fearless, but not stupid. She dressed like a man and carried […]
February 14, 2019
Love is Waiting for You. Literally.
Love conquers all. Eventually, right? One of my favorite stories of a determined man finally winning the heart of his beloved is the true tale of Ethel and John Love. Yes, Love. This is the story of a girl who held out against this love-struck sheepherder for five years…but John wore her down. I hereby […]
February 6, 2019
Changing a Book to Satisfy the Mob
Apparently, author Amélie Wen Zhao hasn’t heard the famous Lincoln quote: You can’t satisfy all of the people all of the time. Amid the outcry of Snowflakes who thought she had treated the issue of slavery without enough sensitivity, the debut author asked her publisher to yank the release in June of Blood Heir so […]
January 31, 2019
Babies Have Rights, Too
Abortion. Yeah. I’m going there. As a history freak, I’m pretty well acquainted with how hard life was for the women who settled and–might I add–fought–for this country. Sometimes they manned cannons or rode through hell and high water to deliver intelligence. They fought marauding Indians, beat off snakes with sticks, stared down cattle rustlers, […]
January 23, 2019
The Woman Who Struck Fear into the Hearts of…Rattlesnakes
I couldn’t resist sharing this tale with y’all. I was doing a little research and stumbled across the story of Kate McHale Slaughterback. Born in Longmont, CO in 1894, Kate was a pistol. By all accounts, she was strong-willed, independent, arguably surly, and she did not like to be told what to do. By anybody. […]
