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Albert, Susan Wittig |
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Anderson, J. Emerita |
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Archer, Jane |
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| Baker, Doris |
Filter Press is an award-winning publisher of western United States history,Colorado history, Native American studies, and children's historical fiction by Mary Peace Finley |
| Bauer, Betty |
Betty Bauer writes children’s stories about raising sheep, traveling through National Parks and on the Lewis and Clark Trail. In 2006 she published her first children’s book Bison and Burro in honor of Mesa Verde National Park’s 100th anniversary. Betty often accompanies study tours for the National
Trust for Historic Preservation. She carried her preservation activities
with her from Maryland/DC to Colorado and now Kansas. She helped restore
an adobe barn and sheepherder’s wagon at the Ritter Ranch at LaVeta,
Colorado, and she worked on the Sacajawea Ranch along the Lewis and
Clark Trail at Salmon, Idaho. For six years, Betty has tutored on
Navajo and Hopi Reservations in Arizona and Utah. Bison and Burro tells of a wild jeep ride through Kansas and Colorado, with the animals counting by fives to reach 100 at Mesa Verde National Park. |
| Becker, Cynthia S. |
Cynthia fell in love with the West as a child and
moved to Colorado the day after graduating from college. Her articles
have appeared in the New York Times, Saturday Evening Post, Colorado
Country Life, and other publications. She completed her sixth book
Biography, middle grade historical fiction Chipeta: Ute Peacemaker (middle grade), Filter Press, 2008. Chipeta: Queen of the Utes (co-author P. David Smith), Western Reflections, 2003. |
Bellinger, Cindy |
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| Bittner, Rosanne |
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| Bloomfield, Susanne George |
http://faculty.unk.edu/b/bloomfields Susanne George Bloomfield is the author of Impertinences:
Selected She has published eight other books, including Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works, which was a winner of the Susan Koppleman Award and a Society of Midland Authors’ biography finalist, the monograph “Absolutely No Manners”: On Having the Audacity to Write Biography, and The Adventures of The Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. Her tenth work, co-edited with Eric Melvin Reed, will be coming out in fall 2007, again with the University of Nebraska Press. It is entitled Adventures in the West: Stories for the Whole Family, and is an illustrated collection of turn-of-the-century stories from The Youth’s Companion and St. Nicholas. Each story is prefaced with historical and cultural contexts and included information about the author. Susanne is currently working on a memoir/history of her family farm. |
| Bodwell, Teresa |
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| Boeve, Eunice |
Raised in Montana and Idaho under the influence of a cowboy father and a mother who was an avid reader, I have always loved books about the west. I have lived most of my adult life in a small town in Kansas where my husband and I raised four children, two of which have blessed us with five grandchildren. Historical fiction/ western/ middlegrade/young adult/ adult. Ride a Shadowed Trail - a western set in Texas of a boy who grows up to seek revenge on his mother's killer. Trapped! - The story of twelve-year-old Virginia Reed of the Donner Party stranded in the Sierra mountains the winter of 1846-47. The Summer of the Crow - Brady Foster learns the true meaning of family in this Kansas Depression area novel. A Window to the World - Set in pre-civil war era of western Virginia, Annie mourns the loss of her father, detests the man who seeks to take his place, and helps a runaway slave. Maggie Rose and Sass - Set in an all black town in Kansas in 1888, two girls, one white and one black deal with preconceived notions of race. |
| Breene, Leslee |
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| Brew, Jo |
www.Jo-Brew.com Preserving Cleo - the story of a young wife and mother adjusting to farm life. Cleo's Slow Dance - Cleo loses her husband and must save the family farm and her children's heritage. Finding Clarice - A young woman struggles with the choice between a big career and a future family. What Next, Ms. Elliott? - A widow, Ruth
Elliott searches for a way to make her life fulfilling after retirement.
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Brooks, Valerie J. |
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| Brotherton, Velda |
www.authorsden.com/veldabrotherton Born in Arkansas and raised in Wichita, Kansas, Velda has been writing for twenty years. Her six western historical romances were published in the 1990s. She is now working on a creative non-fiction project with the University of New Mexico Press about family settlement in New Mexico after WW I,. Other projects in various genres are underway. Western, mystery/suspense, non-fiction historical, horror Wandering In The Shadows of Time: An Ozarks Odyssey - The reader follows as the writer tours her home state and interviews long time residents. Springdale: The Courage of Shiloh - The history of the Arkansas town that birthed Tysons and Jones Truck Lines. Short stories in the following Anthologies: Mysteries of the Ozarks Vol I & II - Mysteries either based on Ozark history or set in the contemporary Ozarks. Writing On Walls - A collection of Ozark writers short stories. Echoes Of The Ozarks - A collection of writing about the Ozarks written by members of Ozark Writers League based in Branson. |
| Brown, Irene Bennett |
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| Brownley, Margaret |
Margaret Brownley loves writing about the old west when men were men and women were women but a cowboy wasnâ t a cowboy unless he was wild, woolly and full of fleas. The author of more than 20 books, Margaret has also written more than 500 magazine articles and wrote for a daytime soap. Sheâ s now writing westerns for Thomas Nelson. Her next book, A Lady Like Sarah, will be in bookstores December 2009. Itâ s been chosen as a Woman of Faith book and is the first book in her Rocky Creek series. Inspirational, historical A Lady Like Sarah -- She's an outlaw. He's a preacher. Both are in need of a miracle. |
| Buhler, Danalee |
Danalee Buhler is a writer, enthusiastic hiker, fanatical traveler, and not a bad juggler. She and her husband live in San Diego, California. Running From Coyote: A White Family among the Navajo - Prankster coyote plays one mean trick after another on a young white girl living on the Navajo Indian Reservation. "RUNNING FROM COYOTE" is a remarkable book, a brilliant example of how a writer can use memories of her own childhood to introduce the world to another culture. Not only does Ms. Buhler provide a clear view of the Navajo people, my own favorite Native American culture, she also tells a wonderful story of a white girl growing up between the Sacred Mountains. If I were still teaching my University of New Mexico classes, it would have it on my required reading list. --Tony Hillerman |
| Buyer, Laurie Wagner |
The recipient of a Colorado Council on the Arts Literature Artist Fellowship, Laurie Wagner Buyer has worked with CCA as an artist in residence, with the Young Audiences Program, the Aesthetic Education Institute of Colorado, the Online Poetry Project and Writers on the Net. Laurie has an MFA in Writing from Goddard College. poetry, fiction, non-fiction Spring’s Edge - Winner of the Beryl Markham
Prize for Creative Non-Fiction from Story Line Press. |
| Calvert-Benton, Melanie |
Melanie Calvert Benton, (aka) “Melanie D. Calvert,” “Dahlia Patton” is a retired respiratory care practitioner who now works with her first loves, photography and writing. While running a successful photography business for years, she only recently turned to writing a novel through the urgings of her husband Western Fiction Writer W.R. Benton. Melanie’s photography has appeared on the covers of all four of Mister Benton’s "The Drum Series" and soon will be gracing her own books. Her first historical novel, "A Southern Moon Rising," was released in July 2008. An avid outdoorswoman, she enjoys deer hunting, fishing, camping, Citizen Band Radio and of course, outdoor photography. She prefers the smell of wood smoke, the crackling of a fire late at night, and the serenity of nature, to a fast-paced life in a big city. Melanie is a supporter for empowering women from all walks of life. Born and raised in Mississippi, most of it on a farm, she is a true Southern Belle. Author of " A Southern Moon Rising" (Now Available) Writer for: Women Anglers & Hunters Too! Published in the North American Hunting Club Cook Book "Prizes Of Autumn " for "Melanie's Venison Roast" Melanie’s article, “The Boat That Wouldn’t Float” published in the Oxford SO & SO’s March- April 2008 issue Featured blogger for the Clarion-Ledger’s website, “Outdoors” section Writer for an Outdoors women site: OutdoorEnvy Blogger/ writer for Family, Fish and Game |
| Casey, Donis |
Donis Casey is a full-time novelist and a native Oklahoman. She now lives in Tempe, Arizona, with her husband. The Old Buzzard had it Coming - When drunken, abusive, Harley day ends up dead in a snowbank, no one in Boynton, Oklahoma, is keen on finding his killer. Hornswoggled - As she searches for the truth behind the death of Louise Kelley, Alafair uncovers such a tangle of lies and deceit that she begins to thing the whole town has been hornswoggled! The Drop Edge of Yonder - One August evening in 1914, a bushwhacker blew a hole in Bill McBride and wounded Mary Tucker - and all Mary knows is that the reason has something to do with the Fourth of July. The Sky Took Him - A few days in Enid, Oklahoma
brings Alafair face to face with blackmail, intimidation, murder,
and family secrets that stretch back over twenty years. |
Chukran, Bobbi Ann |
Bobbi was born in Ft. Worth and is a fourth-generation Texan. She grew up in Grapevine, graduated from UT Austin, and now lives in the Texas Hill Country with her husband Rudy. She's been writing since 1981 when her first article was published. She's since gone on to write numerous articles and 13 of her books have been published for both adults and children. Her time is spent with her garden, her herd of cats and writing. Historical mystery fiction, personal non-fiction essays, plays and monologues Lone Star State of Death - A historical mystery novel set in 1880s Texas that features a young, spunky sleuth newspaper editor. Soddies - An early reader (non-fiction) for children about sod houses and their history. Catch me if you Can: Roadrunners - An early reader (non-fiction) for children about roadrunners, their habits, range and more. Prairie Dogs - An early reader (non-fiction) for children about prairie dogs. The Herb Companion Wishbook & Resource Guide - a sourcebook for everything herbal. Colors from Nature - a how-to craft book about natural dyes, traditional and contemporary uses for plants as dyes on fabrics, yarns, etc. |
| Cleary, Rita |
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Cleere, Jan |
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| Collins, V. June Blevins |
Born in Oregon. Ochoco’s Ranch raised, nurtured in Siskiyou’s of CA. Twenty six years bred, raised, trained, & shown Buckskin horses. Designed Logo of American Buckskin Registry Association, She’s ridden horseback 1500 miles from Wallowa, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, to within 30 miles of Canadian border, In Tennessee, Kentucky, Arizona, 1000 miles. Is an artist of mixed Media; Photographer; Hunter, Genealogist, having much study in Geology, and lapidary work. Published “COWBOY POETRY & BARN SOUR VERSE,” designed Cover. She is also published nationally, and locally. Poetry and nonfiction A Keeper - a book of COWBOY POETRY Barn Sour Verse - in large print with over 80 photos, from collection of stories, and different happenings that came to pass during my life, all covering a span of years which allows you to see, and feel history in the making, as you walk in my foot steps along a journey you too, can experience, for it also offers communion to all ages — (7 to 100). |
Couch, Julianne |
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Crew, Linda |
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Cuate, Melodie A. |
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| Curtis, Nancy |
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| Dallas, Sandra |
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Devlin, Carol |
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| Downing, Sybil |
Sybil Downing is co-founder of WWW and the award-winning author of 4 historical novels, a biography and 13 Young Adult and children's books A reviewer for the Denver Post, she and her husband live in Boulder, Colorado. Historical fiction Tom Patterson: Colorado Crusader - reviews the life of a dynamic and controversial man who served as a Colorado Territorial representative to Congress, the state's first congressman, and, later, a U.S. Senator. Fire in the Hole - the story of a young widow, practicing in her father's prestigious Denver firm who attempts to rescue a young miner caught in the midst of the horrendous strike known to history as the Great Coalfield War. Ladies of the Goldfield Stock Exchange - The story of three women from very different backgrounds who decide to start a stock exchange during the great Nevada gold strike in 1905. The Binding Oath - the story of a woman reporter who joins with Denver's district attorney to reveal the Ku Klux Klan's schemes to take over the state. The Vote - Set in Washington and Colorado, the novel is the story of the last crucial months in 1918 to pass the woman suffrage amendment as seen through the eyes and hearts of three women from very different backgrounds. |
Duckworth, Liz |
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Egan, Martha |
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Elliott, Diane |
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| Emory, Lee |
Lee Emory is a multi-published author who lives for
variety in her own books. Though published in other companies before
opening her own publishing house in 2001, Lee is also the owner of
Treble Heart Books, MountainView Publishing, Sundowners and WhoooDoo
Thriller, Science Fiction, non-fiction, romance, suspense Night Freeze is my latest Thriller, which
is getting rave Perdition is a my latest Science Fiction release showing where I see things going in the future, if we don't do something to change it now. |
| Empie, Sunnie |
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| Ernst, Kathleen |
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Farmer, |
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| Fielding, Peggy |
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| Finley, Mary Peace |
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Fliedner, Colleen |
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| Foard, Sheila Wood |
www.institutechildrenslit.com
Diego Rivera (Chelsea House) - A biography
for teens about the Mexican artist, whose murals celebrate the history
and culture of his beloved people. |
Forkner, Tina Ann |
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Goeres-Gardner, Diane L. |
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| Gott, Patricia Probert |
Patricia Gott's life has taken her from growing up in a small rural town in Maine, to graduating from college in Massachusetts and from working for the CIA in Washington, D.C., to owning and operating a roller skating rink for twenty-four years in Western Maine. She has traveled to forty-seven states in the U.S., horse-trekked in nine states and in eight countries. She is an avid equestrienne who owns and trains her own Arabian horses. Ms Gott is now retired, lives in Western Maine, and has written five books. NEW: Horse
Tails by Shasta - A precocious horse named Shasta tells his own
life’s story seeking friendship and companionship in this delightful
children's horse book, colorfully illustrated Cowgirl Days - The adventures continue in this cowgirl sequel, from being a lady horse-wrangler training mustangs in Montana to wrangling horse-pack trips outside Cody, Wyoming into the Shoshone- Teton National Forests. So You Wanna be a Cowgirl- A fun, adventurous
memoir about a divorced, forty(ish) business woman from Maine fulfilling
her dream by working as a horse wrangler and trail guide at a dude
ranch in Metamorphosis, My Journey of Growth and Change is Ms Gott's personal biography and contains many photos of her travels and experiences. Volunteer to Empower tells of her experiences while volunteering for a non-profit organization in Tanzania, Africa, and Ancient Egypt & the Nile relates her adventures in Egypt from racing Arabian horses in the Sahara Desert, to hot-air ballooning over the West Bank of the Nile. Gott has also written a historic western short story "Cowgirl Up", set around Cody, Wyoming in 1903, that is contracted to be published in the forthcoming magazine Great Western Fiction. |
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Greenlee, Carolyn Wing |
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Gresham, Gayle |
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Haigh, Jane G. |
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Harper, Jo |
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| Hasselstrom, Linda |
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Hayes, Mary Eshbaugh |
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Hensley, Marcia Meredith |
A native of Oklahoma, I moved to western Wyoming
in 1983 where I taught at Western Wyoming Community College. There,
I founded the Western American Studies program in addition to teaching
composition and Western American Literature. Since retiring I've Western and women's history, creative non-fiction My essays have been published in Hardground: Writing in the Rockies: 2001, Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the West, Eden Valley Voices: A Centennial Celebration of Stories, Writers on the Range syndicated newspaper column, and High Country News. My book, Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West (High Plains Press, 2008) provides historical context and features many never-before-told stories of single women who homesteaded alone on the western frontier - stories they tell in their own words. |
| Hill, Fern J. |
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| Hill, Laurel Anne |
Laurel’s short fiction and creative nonfiction have won prizes and been published in NthZine (online exclusives), Lynx Eye, the San Jose Mercury News, Space and Time, and a variety of small-circulation magazines. KQED-FM (NPR, San Francisco) broadcast her perspective in 2004 about the plight of homeless families. Historical and Futuristic "Western" * Magical Realism/Literary Fantasy * Creative Nonfiction/Personal Essay Unpublished Novels: A Light from the Mountain, being represented by Helen McGrath & Associates, is set in rural 23rd Century California. The writing of Plague of Flies, a young adult novel set 19th Century Mexican California, is in progress. |
| Hinger, Charlotte |
Charlotte Hinger, a native Kansan, writes historical novels and non-fiction articles about contemporary and historical issues in the rural west. She holds a MA in history from Fort Hays State University. She received the Western Writers of America’s Medicine Pipe Bearer’s Award. Her novel, Come Spring, was a finalist for a Spur Award. Hinger has published a number of mystery short stories and newspaper columns. She is working on a non-fiction book for a university press. Historical fiction, mystery short stories, non-fiction historical articles and books. Come Spring, a novel, published by Simon and Schuster, Warner Books, Books in Motion, Readers Digest Condensed Books, Piatkus Publishers, and Bladkompaniet A.S. Sheridan County: A History of Faith and Labor, a two-volume non-fiction county and family history published by the Sheridan County Historical Society. “Any Old Mother,” included in the Mystery Writer’s of America anthology, Blood on Their Hands. “The Family Rose,” included in two anthologies: Death on the Verandah and Murder to Music. |
Hodder, Beth |
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Holt Ph.D., Anne Haw |
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Hurd Jerrie |
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Jackson Louise A. |
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Jacobs, Linda |
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| Jenner, Gail L. |
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| Jones, Teddy |
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Justesen, Kim |
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King, Jacqueline |
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| Kirkpatrick, Jane |
www.janekirkpatrick.blogspot.com An Oregonian, Jane holds an advanced degree in clinical social work. She writes full time from her ranch along the John Day River. Named Distinguished Northwest Writer for 2005 by Willamette Writers. Jane is the current WWW President. Jane writes historical novels based on the lives of real people, primarily women (12 novels) and two non-fiction titles including a book for people dealing with grief and a memoir. Most recent books: A Tendering in the Storm 2007 (Winner of the WILLA Literary Award for best original paperback, 2008 (WB-Random House A Mending at the Edge, released April 2007,
a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection. (WaterBrook/Random
House) Backlist: Love to Water My Soul - a young girl raised by Indians seeks the meaning of family, based on Jane's husband's family story. A Gathering of Finches - a wealthy 1890s woman in Washington and Oregon finds a way to life with the consequences of her choices. Mystic Sweet Communion - set in Florida, this story is about the first teacher in south Florida and how she came to help negotiate a federal Indian treaty. Kinship and Courage Series No Eye Can See - Early Shasta City sees the women arrive in the mining town where they discover what truly matters is friendship and finding the hearth of their hearts. What Once We Loved - Branching out, the women must heal broken friendships while they build new lives in the Southern Oregon country. A Simple Gift of Comfort - non-fiction: Healing words for difficult days. Tender Ties Historical Fiction Series Every Fixed Star - Marie finds a way to raise her family alone in the newly emerging Oregon Territory. Based on a true story. Hold Tight the Thread - The final installment honors family, change and commitment as Marie launches her family into the world of wars. A Land of Sheltered Promise - Three women, three eras, one landscape in the west. Based on a true story of loss, communal corruption and the redemption of land through a camp for kids. Spur Award Finalist for Best Novel of the West. Homestead: Modern Pioneers Pursing the Edge of Possibility. A memoir of Jane's journey from suburbia to rattlesnake and rock ranch and how her life was changed. She lives there still with her husband and two dogs. |
| Lambert, Page |
Page Lambert was described by Inside/Outside Southwest Magazine as one of the most notable women writers of the contemporary West. Author of the Rocky Mountain bestselling memoir, In Search of Kinship and the novel, Shifting Stars (finalist for the Mountains and Plains Book Award), her work is featured in dozens of anthologies. A recipient of two Wyoming Arts Council Literary Fellowships, in 2006 her "River Writing Journeys for Women" were hailed by Oprah's O Magazine as "One of six great all-girl getaways of the year." Facilitator of over 150 workshops and retreats, she writes from the mountains west of Denver. Memoir, essay, fiction, poetry As an author and advocate for the western landscape and its people, Lambert believes that "Stories create a vital bridge between differing points of view," and it is this belief that fuels her nature-inspired writing. |
Larson, Sunday |
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Lenard-Cook, Lisa |
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| Ladd, Louise |
Louise Ladd's Double Diamond Dude Ranch series is for horse-loving kids 8-12, featuring Chris, a girl lucky enough to grow up living on a dude ranch and owning her own horse. Chris takes on problems with feisty good nature and a great love of animals. Visit Ladd's web site to learn more and see her other books. Ladd writes novels for children but have also published adult non-fiction. She also works as a free-lance editor. Many kids love horses and dream of living on a ranch
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| Lohse, Joyce B. |
Denver journalist, genealogist, and author Joyce B. Lohse writes biographies for “Now You Know Bios” from Filter Press. Justina Ford: Medical Pioneer, was finalist for the CIPA EVVY Award and the WILLA Award. First Governor, First Lady: John and Eliza Routt of Colorado, previously won Best Biography from CIPA (Colorado Independent Publishers Association). Joyce is administrator for Women Writing the West. Non-fiction, Colorado Regional History, Biography, Children's Nonfiction, fictionalized memoir Unsinkable Mrs. J. J. Brown: The Molly Brown Story - "A Now You Know Bio" - child-friendly - due for fall publication, Filter Press, 2006. Emily Griffith: Opportunity's Teacher - "A Now You Know Bio" - child-friendly briography, Filter Press, 2005. Justina Ford: Medical Pioneer - "A Now You Know Bio" - award-winning child-friendly bioggraphy, Filter Press, 2004. First Governor, First Lady: John and Eliza Routt of Colorado - award-winning biography, Filter Press, 2002. A Yellowstone Savage: Life In Nature's Wonderland - fictionalized memoir, J.D. Charles Publishing, 1988. |
| Long, Beverly |
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Long, Elaine |
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| Lyon, Suzanne |
Suzanne Lyon was raised in the Midwest and moved to Colorado to attend college at the foot of Pike's Peak. Law school followed and a stint at the Department of Interior in Washington, D.C. Lured by the landscapes and legends of the West, Suzanne returned to Colorado and turned her talents to writing historical fiction. Lyon is a former officer of Women Writing the West. A frequent presenter at conferences and literary events, she can be reached at info@suzannelyon.com. Historical Fiction A Heart for Any Fate - Based on the true story of Hannah Cole, Missouri's "Pioneer Mother", who endured marauding Indians, starvation, natural disasters, and personal tragedy as she struggled to raise a family on the untamed banks of the Missouri River. Bandit Invincible: Butch Cassidy - Robert Leroy Parker rode away from his father's Utah farm to find his way in the world, and rode into the folklore of the frontier as the most dangerous--yet beloved--outlaw of the Old West, Butch Cassidy. El Desconocido: Butch Cassidy - Following a series of daring robberies, Cassidy and his loyal henchman, the Sundance Kid, disappear. Did they die, as some believe, in a shoot-out in South America, or did Cassidy survive and return to the United States--a stranger to his death? Lady Buckaroo - Based on the true stories of several real-life female rodeo stars, "Lady Buckaroo" tells the tale of 1920's barnstorming cowgirl Lael Buckley who follows her dream and overcomes many obstacles to become a rodeo professional. |
| Magee, Sharon S. |
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| Maine, Priscilla |
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| Massey, Cynthia Leal |
Award-winning author Cynthia Leal Massey is Editor-At-Large for SCENE IN SA MONTHLY, a general interest magazine, in San Antonio, Texas. Her career has included stints as a science writer, journalist and college English instructor. She writes historical fiction and nonfiction, literary and children's fiction. In her award-winning first novel, Fire Lilies, two sisters and their family are torn by political turmoil and divided loyalties as they struggle to survive the Mexican Revolution of 1910. In The Caballeros of Ruby, Texas, a 2003 WILLA Award Finalist for Best Original Softcover, three daughters tell the story of their father, Don Miguel Caballero, a successful labor contractor in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley and later, in California’s Salinas Valley, as all he has worked for begins to unravel. |
Massey, Ellen Gray |
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McCraw, Doris |
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Messersmith, Lyn |
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Midkiff, Mary Lou |
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| Miller, Susan Cummins |
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| Monahan, Sherry
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Sherry Monahan is an award-winning author who has
appeared on the History Channel, and is a contributing editor for
True West magazine. Her fourth book, Tombstone’s Treasure,
will be published by University of New Mexico Press. She is working
on a non-fiction book about Victorian Virtues in the Wild West. She
also deals the old western banking game of Faro in her Victorian dress. Pikes Peak: Adventurers, Communities and Lifestyles - Captured here in about 200 vintage images are the lives, trials, adventures, and recreations of some of the Peak's early pioneers and visitors, covering a span of almost 60 years each photo includes a historical caption. The Wicked West: Boozers, Cruisers, and More - contains racy stories, instructions to popular late 1800s saloon games, recipes for popular drinks of the day, and poems written by “soiled doves” for a sporting magazine of the time. |
Moore, Lucy |
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| Moulton, Candy |
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Newman, Sharan |
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| Niethammer, Carolyn |
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Oswald, Nancy |
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| Parker, Ann |
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| Peek, Pat Cary |
Pat Cary Peek grew up in Oregon. She holds a BS and MS degree from the University of Oregon. She has lived near Moscow, Idaho, since 1980. She taught school for over twenty years. Upon retirement she began her writing career and is the author of two volumes. Non-fiction and biography One Winter in the Wilderness - The author's
personal story of life in the Idaho wilderness. |
| Platt, Randall |
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| Purl, Mara |
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| Ramsey, Gwyn (also writing as A. G. Rains) |
Gwyn Ramsey moved from Missouri to southwest Florida
with her husband for an easier life. Author and genealogist, she enjoys
writing and telling stories from the heart. Gwyn is the membership
chairwoman for the Women Writing the West. |
Read June Willson |
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Redmond Shirley Raye |
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| Rickman, Sarah |
Former journalist Sarah Byrn Rickman grew up in Denver and reluctantly left the West when she was 19. She writes nonfiction and fiction about the WASP, the women who flew airplanes for the Army in World War II, and does oral histories for the WASP Archives at Texas Woman’s University. Books The Originals: The Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron of World War II - the history of the first 28 WASP, founded in 1942 by Nancy Harkness Love. Flight From Fear - an adventure-romance based on the WASP story and a Finalist in the 2003 WILLA Literary Competition, Original Softcover category. Both from Disc-Us Books, Inc. |
| Riehl, Janet Grace |
Janet is an award-winning author, artist, and speaker
registered in Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction |
| Rochlin, Harriet |
Harriet Rochlin, a native of Los Angeles, has been researching, writing, and lecturing on Jewish roots in the Spanish, Mexican and American West for more than three decades. Her landmark illustrated social history, Pioneer
Jews: A New Life in the Far West, is now in its eleventh printing.
She turned to fiction to probe the inner lives of these pioneers as
they progressed from newcomers to westerners. The Desert Dwellers
Trilogy consists of The Reformer’s Apprentice: A Novel of
Old San Francisco, The First Lady of Dos Cacahuates, and On
Her Way Home. Available individually or as packaged set, these
acclaimed novels tracks twelve years — 1875 to 1887 — in the eventful
life of progress-minded Frieda Levie as she seeks her place, first
in class-conscious San Francisco, then in an outpost on the Arizona-Sonora
The Harriet Rochlin Collection of Western Jewish
History and the Harriet Rochlin Collection of Western Jewish Photographs
are housed at the University of California, Special Collections. Contact
information is on www.rochlin-roots-west.com/collections. |
| Sandell, Irene (Cindy) |
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| Sandifer, Linda |
Linda Sandifer is the award-winning author of twelve
novels that have been translated into numerous languages throughout
the world. Born and raised in Historical fiction, western romances, and contemporary mainstream fiction Raveled Ends of Sky (Forge Books) - a historical saga about a woman's journey across the wild American frontier to find freedom and individuality in 1843 California. "[An] epic adventure." Abilene Reporter News The Daughters of Luke McCall (Five Star) - in a fast-paced, humorous western adventure, Luke McCall and his four daughters must outrun and outsmart a crooked sheriff who wants to see them hang for crimes they didn't commit. "A grand read." Affaire de Coeur Magazine |
| Sayres, Meghan Nuttall |
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Schmauder, Sherie Fox |
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| Schroeder, Anne |
A fifth-generation Californian, Anne Schroeder evokes the drama of growing up in a close-knit Southern California farm community in her first memoir, Branches on the Conejo, which won a William Saroyan Persie Award. Her latest memoir, Ordinary Aphrodite, is the inspirational journey of a woman who finds joy in the ordinary, whose life manages to transcend the mundane in lessons of love and encouragement, of friendship and failure. She heeds the warnings of strangers and finds the lessons that the Universe bestows by simply saying “Yes!” to life. Her short stories and essays have appeared in many
publications. She teaches creative writing workshops, including the
2006 Women Writing the West Conference, in Colorado Springs. Ordinary Aphrodite
-- humorous, insightful reflections Branches on the Conejo --a tribute to farm and family in early-day Southern California. |
Sidoli, Penny |
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Simonson, Sheila |
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| Squires, JD |
www.janetsquires.com |
| Sundell, Joanne |
Joanne Sundell, BSN, a long-time fan of women's fiction and romance, enjoys writing historical westerns about heroic women of strong purpose. Retired from nursing, she lives in the Colorado Rockies with her husband and entourage' of felines and huskies. Writing Memberships: RWA/WWW Historical, western romance Matchmaker, Matchmaker (Jan/2006 release)
- a tale of mis-matched love, dramatizes the hardships faced by a
young Jewish immigrant in the Colorado Territory of 1867. |
| Thomas, Heidi M. |
I have a degree in journalism from the University of Montana, and have written numerous newspaper and magazine articles over the years. Since moving to Washington State in 1996, I have been concentrating on fiction. I've completed three novels and started a fourth in a series I call "Dare to Dream." My first novel, Cowgirl Dreams, has been published by Treble Heart Books and is based on my grandmother who rode in Montana rodeos during the 1920s. Under the umbrella of Heidi M. Thomas Writing Services,
I am also a freelance manuscript editor, and I teach Memoir and Beginning
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| Trimble, Mary E. |
Trimble's coming-of-age novels, Rosemount and McClellan's Bluff have been met with enthusiastic acclaim. McClellan's Bluff is the recipient of the EPIC Young Adult Winner Award. Her latest novel, Tenderfoot will be released mid-2009. She is a member of Women Writing the West, Pacific Northwest Writers Association, The Authors Guild, and Electronically Published Internet Connection. Trimble is also the author of 400+ magazine and newspaper articles. Mainstream and coming-of-age fiction Tenderfoot - Corris Stevens isn't t looking for love, she's s looking for adventure, but when Mount St. Helens erupts her life spins into impassioned emotions and more adventure than she bargained for. McClellan's Bluff - A sequel to ROSEMOUNT, Leslie Cahill, seventeen, falls in love with twenty-eight year old cowboy, much to the distress of her ranching family. Rosemount - Leslie Cahill, sixteen, learns one of life's hard lessons in this coming-of-age contemporary western set in Washington and Oregon ranch country. |
| Trupin-Pulli, Elizabeth |
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Award-winning author, commentator and garden designer Susan J. Tweit began her career as a biologist studying wildfires and grizzly-bear habitat. She has written ten books and hundreds of articles and essays for magazines from AUDUBON to POPULAR MECHANICS and the Los Angeles Times. Recent books include: The San Luis Valley: Sand Dunes adn Sandhill Creanes. "An extraordinary spring journey" and "a joy to read." --High Country News Colorado Less Travelled (photographs by Jim Steinberg). "A stunning and lyrical look at the "other" Colorado." --Rocky Mountain News Barren, Wild, and Worthless: Living in the Chihuahan Desert. "One of the greatest titles ever … about the Southwest." Southwest Book Views |
| Wade, Mary D. |
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| Wadsworth, Ginger |
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Wallace, Louise Lenahan |
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| Waterston, Ellen |
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Weinberg, Florence Byham |
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| Werkley, Vicki Hessel |
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| Weston, |
Award-winning writer Julie Weston is part of the fifth generation of her family to live and work in Idaho. Following her career as a lawyer in Seattle, Julie began writing stories and essays, many of which have been published in journals, including IDAHO Magazine, The Threepenny Review, River Styx and Clackamas Review. She has won awards from the PNWA, Prose for Papa (Hemingway), Willamette Fiction Contest and Red Hen Press. Both an essay and a story have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Creative non-fiction and Fiction Julie's creative nonfiction book, THE GOOD TIMES ARE ALL GONE NOW: Life, Death and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town, released in 2009 from the University of Oklahoma Press, is a memoir of place, weaving the story of hard rock mining and labor strife, leavened with gambling, drinking and prostitution, together with the tale of teenage love and heartbreak in a juxtaposition of life in Kellogg, Idaho in the 1950s and '60s. |
| Winfield, Fairlee |
Fairlee Winfield is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
and Historical fiction BUFFALOED my first novel's main character is a Norwegian immigrant girl working for renowned Cowboy Artist, Charlie Russell. It reveals a gritty story of the west and a possible controversy surrounding the famous Montana State House mural. |
Witmer-Gow, Karyn |