Ask the Author: Jane Little Botkin
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Jane Little Botkin
I am currently working on three books. One, currently in research, narrates the life of Hank Boedeker, a Wyoming lawman who was also a friend of Butch Cassidy’s. Their worlds collide, not surprisingly. I still have much traveling to do before I begin writing.
I'm also collecting research for a biography of Mary (Molly) Goodnight, wife of famed Charles Goodnight. More to come!
Though not typical of my western-history writing, my second book-in-progress, The Reluctant Beauty Queen: My Year as a GuyRex Girl, is a memoir revealing the hilarity and sometimes-absurdity of the Texas beauty pageant business while under control of famous beauty-queen-makers Richard Guy and Rex Holt. I was their first Miss El Paso—and the beauty duo’s trial and error—before they mastered queen-making and produced the Texas Aces (Five consecutive Miss USAs) during the 1980s. A somber thread of women’s shared issues will weave the fun together. This book is currently being written.
I'm also collecting research for a biography of Mary (Molly) Goodnight, wife of famed Charles Goodnight. More to come!
Though not typical of my western-history writing, my second book-in-progress, The Reluctant Beauty Queen: My Year as a GuyRex Girl, is a memoir revealing the hilarity and sometimes-absurdity of the Texas beauty pageant business while under control of famous beauty-queen-makers Richard Guy and Rex Holt. I was their first Miss El Paso—and the beauty duo’s trial and error—before they mastered queen-making and produced the Texas Aces (Five consecutive Miss USAs) during the 1980s. A somber thread of women’s shared issues will weave the fun together. This book is currently being written.
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