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A Most Wicked Giveaway
A most wicked giveaway. Enter now to win a copy of the new book Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West.
According to the July 19, 1897 edition of the Woodland Daily Democrat, the soiled doves and wicked women of Hillertown have finally come to the conclusion that the officers mean business in attempting to rid the city of their class, and the afore mentioned doves have agreed to leave at an early date. This morning District Attorney Hopkins and Officers Lee, Hughes, and Dawson went down to Hillertown and told the damsels that if they would leave their cases of vagrancy against them would not be prosecuted. All the landlords and the inmates of their homes said they would go except Annie Goodrich, who became quite dignified and told the officers that she would think about it. The officers agreed to take her to a cool place to meditate over the matter and placed her under arrest. She was taken before Judge Lampton and after thinking the matter over, concluded to plead guilty. She was removed to the county jail to await sentencing. The Judge issued a statement warning all wicked women against visiting Hillertown again.
To learn about wicked women on the wild frontier read Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West.
National Book Launch on February 21, 2015 from Noon to 2 p.m. at the Nevada County Railroad Museum in Nevada City, California.
According to the July 19, 1897 edition of the Woodland Daily Democrat, the soiled doves and wicked women of Hillertown have finally come to the conclusion that the officers mean business in attempting to rid the city of their class, and the afore mentioned doves have agreed to leave at an early date. This morning District Attorney Hopkins and Officers Lee, Hughes, and Dawson went down to Hillertown and told the damsels that if they would leave their cases of vagrancy against them would not be prosecuted. All the landlords and the inmates of their homes said they would go except Annie Goodrich, who became quite dignified and told the officers that she would think about it. The officers agreed to take her to a cool place to meditate over the matter and placed her under arrest. She was taken before Judge Lampton and after thinking the matter over, concluded to plead guilty. She was removed to the county jail to await sentencing. The Judge issued a statement warning all wicked women against visiting Hillertown again.
To learn about wicked women on the wild frontier read Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West.
National Book Launch on February 21, 2015 from Noon to 2 p.m. at the Nevada County Railroad Museum in Nevada City, California.
Wicked Woman Takes Her Own Life
Enter now to win a copy of the new book Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West.
Lottie Goodrich, a denizen of Hangtown, California who makes her home in a house known as the Palace, attempted to poison herself by taking morphine this morning. About l o'clock this morning as Lottie
Mitchell, who occupies another house of the same character in the vicinity, was going to breakfast, she saw the Goodrich woman wandering about in an aimless sort of way in the streets. Observing that she was in distress she went to her assistance and enquired the
trouble and was informed that the Good - rich woman had taken m orphine with the intent of poisoning herself. Help was summoned, but before it arrived the woman fell in the street. A crowd of soiled doves soon congregated about her and attempted to believe her with the usual antidotes, but failed. Dr. Ward was summoned and the woman was taken into the house. After laboring with her for two hours he
succeeded in restoring her to consciousness. The doctor says if she can be kept awake she will recover. Before taking the morphine the woman wrote a note which she left in her room. It was addressed to Lou Carlton and in substance was as follows: “ Telegraph to my mother in Oregon that I have killed myself. Tell her to come down. What money I have left give to my children. I am tired of life.
Give my love to Mrs. Johnson, of Sacramento. Curl my hair before burial.” Lottie Goodrich is supposed to have money in an Oroville bank. It is said that her husband is in San Quentin. She is the mother of several children.
To learn about wicked women on the wild frontier read Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West.
National Book Launch on February 21, 2015 from Noon to 2 p.m. at the Nevada County Railroad Museum in Nevada City, California.
Lottie Goodrich, a denizen of Hangtown, California who makes her home in a house known as the Palace, attempted to poison herself by taking morphine this morning. About l o'clock this morning as Lottie
Mitchell, who occupies another house of the same character in the vicinity, was going to breakfast, she saw the Goodrich woman wandering about in an aimless sort of way in the streets. Observing that she was in distress she went to her assistance and enquired the
trouble and was informed that the Good - rich woman had taken m orphine with the intent of poisoning herself. Help was summoned, but before it arrived the woman fell in the street. A crowd of soiled doves soon congregated about her and attempted to believe her with the usual antidotes, but failed. Dr. Ward was summoned and the woman was taken into the house. After laboring with her for two hours he
succeeded in restoring her to consciousness. The doctor says if she can be kept awake she will recover. Before taking the morphine the woman wrote a note which she left in her room. It was addressed to Lou Carlton and in substance was as follows: “ Telegraph to my mother in Oregon that I have killed myself. Tell her to come down. What money I have left give to my children. I am tired of life.
Give my love to Mrs. Johnson, of Sacramento. Curl my hair before burial.” Lottie Goodrich is supposed to have money in an Oroville bank. It is said that her husband is in San Quentin. She is the mother of several children.
To learn about wicked women on the wild frontier read Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West.
National Book Launch on February 21, 2015 from Noon to 2 p.m. at the Nevada County Railroad Museum in Nevada City, California.
Wicked Women Win
There will be a parade of more Wicked Women in February. Congratulations to Sherri Royce who won a copy of Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West. More books to be given away. Enter now to win a copy of the new book Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West.
According to the December 20, 1894, edition of the Woodland Daily Democrat, “officers in a Northern California mining town raided a house of ill-repute last night. There were three soiled doves and three persons of the sterner sex who are expected to answer to the call of the court on a date hereafter to be fixed. The names of the parties directly concerned are withheld from publication for the very good reasons that the men concerned are of such a standing as to deserve protection on account of their families, if for no other reason.”
To learn about wicked women on the wild frontier read Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West. Available now wherever books are sold.
National Book Launch on February 21, 2015 from Noon to 2 p.m. at the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum in Nevada City, California.
According to the December 20, 1894, edition of the Woodland Daily Democrat, “officers in a Northern California mining town raided a house of ill-repute last night. There were three soiled doves and three persons of the sterner sex who are expected to answer to the call of the court on a date hereafter to be fixed. The names of the parties directly concerned are withheld from publication for the very good reasons that the men concerned are of such a standing as to deserve protection on account of their families, if for no other reason.”
To learn about wicked women on the wild frontier read Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West. Available now wherever books are sold.
National Book Launch on February 21, 2015 from Noon to 2 p.m. at the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum in Nevada City, California.
The Rider Senorita Rosalie
Time for a giveaway. Enter for a chance to win a copy of Buffalo Gals: Women of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.
Senorita Rosalie was the Mexican star of the Wild West Show. She was a stunning black-haired woman who had achieved fame as a trick rider. She would jump over walls and ride holding the reins in her mouth while standing on the back of her horse. With her feet firmly placed on the ground, she would spur her horse on and jump on its back. While the animal was in full gallop, she would fling her body in and out of the saddle and dangle precariously off the sides of the horse. She could even lie down in the saddle and retrieve items left on the arena floor.
Senorita Rosalie’s expertise on a horse made her a highly sought after riding instructor. Many Wild West performers benefited from her horse-back riding advice.
To learn more about the Senorita Rosalie and the other women who performed with Cody read Buffalo Gals: Women of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.
Senorita Rosalie was the Mexican star of the Wild West Show. She was a stunning black-haired woman who had achieved fame as a trick rider. She would jump over walls and ride holding the reins in her mouth while standing on the back of her horse. With her feet firmly placed on the ground, she would spur her horse on and jump on its back. While the animal was in full gallop, she would fling her body in and out of the saddle and dangle precariously off the sides of the horse. She could even lie down in the saddle and retrieve items left on the arena floor.
Senorita Rosalie’s expertise on a horse made her a highly sought after riding instructor. Many Wild West performers benefited from her horse-back riding advice.
To learn more about the Senorita Rosalie and the other women who performed with Cody read Buffalo Gals: Women of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.
Born on the Fourth of July
It’s just a dead Giveaway! Enter now to win a copy of the new book More Tales Behind the Tombstones: More Deaths and Burials of the Old West's Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, and Celebrated Lawmen.
Stephen Foster was the first full-fledged American composers, born, no less, on the Fourth of July, 1826, near Pittsburgh. Anyone who ever sat for a piano lesson has played his favorites including “Oh! Susanna”, “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair“, and “Beautiful Dreamer.” By the age of twenty-five Foster had published twelve original songs and had engaged in earnest as a professional composer.
He labored to make his songs appeal to the sentiments of his contemporary America, and he is considered the country’s first pop artist. However, the struggle to get paid for his work was the things that did him in. Foster attempted to keep an exact accounting and even wrote out the first semblance of a royalty contract with the publisher, but he couldn’t prevent another sheet music company from printing and selling his songs royalty-free. Nor did he receive anything for performance rights.
For a lifetime of labor he earned $15, 091.08, all the while composing, bickering to get paid, and drinking. Drinking he did with equal passion so that by the age of thirty-seven he was holed up in a cheap hotel room in New York City’s theatre district suffering from fever induced by alcoholism and liver failure. The exact cause of his death was lacerations to his head. When he tried to get out of bed, he fell and shattered a porcelain washbasin, suffering a deep gouge. It took three hours before he was taken to the hospital, where he died three days later in 1864. He had thirty-eight cents in his pockets.
To learn more about Stephen Foster and others like him who left their mark on the American West read More Tales Behind the Tombstones: More Deaths and Burials of the Old West's Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, and Celebrated Lawmen.
Stephen Foster was the first full-fledged American composers, born, no less, on the Fourth of July, 1826, near Pittsburgh. Anyone who ever sat for a piano lesson has played his favorites including “Oh! Susanna”, “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair“, and “Beautiful Dreamer.” By the age of twenty-five Foster had published twelve original songs and had engaged in earnest as a professional composer.
He labored to make his songs appeal to the sentiments of his contemporary America, and he is considered the country’s first pop artist. However, the struggle to get paid for his work was the things that did him in. Foster attempted to keep an exact accounting and even wrote out the first semblance of a royalty contract with the publisher, but he couldn’t prevent another sheet music company from printing and selling his songs royalty-free. Nor did he receive anything for performance rights.
For a lifetime of labor he earned $15, 091.08, all the while composing, bickering to get paid, and drinking. Drinking he did with equal passion so that by the age of thirty-seven he was holed up in a cheap hotel room in New York City’s theatre district suffering from fever induced by alcoholism and liver failure. The exact cause of his death was lacerations to his head. When he tried to get out of bed, he fell and shattered a porcelain washbasin, suffering a deep gouge. It took three hours before he was taken to the hospital, where he died three days later in 1864. He had thirty-eight cents in his pockets.
To learn more about Stephen Foster and others like him who left their mark on the American West read More Tales Behind the Tombstones: More Deaths and Burials of the Old West's Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, and Celebrated Lawmen.
Young in Utah
Giveaway! Enter now to win a copy of the new book More Tales Behind the Tombstones: More Deaths and Burials of the Old West's Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, and Celebrated Lawmen.
Brigham Young became an explorer and hero to many when he embarked on the best-organized westward migration in U.S. history in 1847. Motivated by a vision to find a safe haven for his religious ideas, he brought the Mormon Church to Utah and, in so doing, helped shaped the American West.
When he came upon the Great Salt Lake Valley, he said, “It is enough, this is the right place.” For thirty years he supervised Mormon settlements in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, and California. Before Young died at the age of seventy-six in 1877 of acute appendicitis, he had more than fifty wives.
To learn more about Brigham Young and others like him who left their mark on the American West read More Tales Behind the Tombstones: More Deaths and Burials of the Old West's Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, and Celebrated Lawmen.
Brigham Young became an explorer and hero to many when he embarked on the best-organized westward migration in U.S. history in 1847. Motivated by a vision to find a safe haven for his religious ideas, he brought the Mormon Church to Utah and, in so doing, helped shaped the American West.
When he came upon the Great Salt Lake Valley, he said, “It is enough, this is the right place.” For thirty years he supervised Mormon settlements in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, and California. Before Young died at the age of seventy-six in 1877 of acute appendicitis, he had more than fifty wives.
To learn more about Brigham Young and others like him who left their mark on the American West read More Tales Behind the Tombstones: More Deaths and Burials of the Old West's Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, and Celebrated Lawmen.
Around the World in Less Than Eighty Days
Don’t wait! Enter now! It’s a double giveaway. Enter now to win two books! Tales Behind the Tombstones: The Deaths and Burials of the Old West’s Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, and Celebrated Lawmen and the new book More Tales Behind the Tombstones: More Deaths and Burials of the Old West's Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, and Celebrated Lawmen.
On a summer day in the early 1880s an article called “What Girls Are Good For” appeared in the Pittsburg Dispatch. It took a firm stand against the new fad of hiring women to work in offices and shops. “A respectable woman,” the article noted with authority, “remained at home until she married.” If a husband eluded her, she had two choices left. She might go into teaching or into nursing, provided money for her training could be wangled from a reluctant father. Otherwise, she stayed under his roof or that of a relative and for the remainder of her life accepted the status of house worker or child’s nurse, without pay.
The article expressed the customary male sentiments of the day, more emphatically than usual because the editors were stirred up over the inroads being made by suffragettes. Radical females like Susan B. Anthony, openly militant in regard to votes for females, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, champion of women’s rights, went striding up and down the country with a following of “bloomer girls.” Nobody knew better than the Dispatch’s managing editor, George A. Madden, that since the Civil War the manpower shortage had increasingly drawn women into mills and factories, but he felt a barricade must be erected against such an alarming trend. Women in politics were unthinkable, as obviously out of place there as they would be in such a masculine stronghold as his own, a newspaper office.
The article received the expected male commendation from Mr. Madden’s business associates. He was happily married and his wife, busy with children, made no comment. Other matters had taken its place in his active editorial mind when a few days later his memory was refreshed. Going through the morning mail, he read a letter and winced. Then he read it again, and a third time, even though it bore no signature, and for a reason. It was a reply to the “What Girls Are Good For” story, and it sizzled. It was a rebuke to the newspaper’s old fashioned attitude, a declaration of independence for women, a war cry to them to take their proper place in a man’s world to lead interesting, useful, and profitable lives.
The anonymous communication was well written, blazing with conviction. But there was more than that to challenge Mr. Madden’s interest. It made sense.
The busy editor finally tossed it into the pile, finished the remainder of the mail, and went back to reading the tissue-paper slips bearing the telegraphic news. But when he had them impaled neatly on the nearby spindle, he took up the letter again. It intrigued him. He studied the handwriting. It appeared feminine, as feminine as the attitude it expressed. But surely no woman could write so logically and so eloquently.
He could not publish the thing, even with a signature. It was against his principles, against popular opinion. But he did want to know who had sent it. An idea came to him. He would advertise in the columns of the Dispatch for the writer’s name and address, and, if he obtained them, he might assign a story to be written on the other side of the question. The author would turn out to be a man, of course, perhaps taking this way to attract attention and get a job. Madden would certainly give him one if he wrote like this consistently.
The advertisement appeared the next day. A reply came almost at once.
The letter was written by a woman. Her name was Elizabeth Cochrane, and she lived in Pittsburgh.
George Madden was a newspaperman by both training and instinct; he always followed a hunch. He wrote to Miss Cochrane and asked for an article on “Girls and Their Spheres in Life.”
Again she was prompt; the article arrived within a few days. The editor read it and found it good. He paid for it. Then he abandoned caution. Fortifying himself, for he was positive he was opening the door to a battle-ax suffragette, he suggested that Elizabeth Cochrane might like to discuss further work for his paper. The two men and Elizabeth accepted a position as reporter for the paper.
Elizabeth Cochran, or Nellie Bly as she was also known, was born on May 5, 1867, in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. According to friends and family, Nellie aspired to be more than what the stereotypical young girl was supposed to be. She liked traveling, adventure, and writing in depth stories. She moved to Pittsburgh at the age of seventeen to pursue her dream of being an investigative reporter. Her first assignment for the Dispatch was to tackle the subject of divorce. She penned numerous articles for the paper ranging from conditions for workers in factories to the treatment of the mentally ill in asylums.
To learn more about Nellie Bly and others like her who left their mark on the American West read Tales Behind the Tombstones: The Deaths and Burials of the Old West’s Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, and Celebrated Lawmen and More Tales Behind the Tombstones: More Deaths and Burials of the Old West's Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, and Celebrated Lawmen.
On a summer day in the early 1880s an article called “What Girls Are Good For” appeared in the Pittsburg Dispatch. It took a firm stand against the new fad of hiring women to work in offices and shops. “A respectable woman,” the article noted with authority, “remained at home until she married.” If a husband eluded her, she had two choices left. She might go into teaching or into nursing, provided money for her training could be wangled from a reluctant father. Otherwise, she stayed under his roof or that of a relative and for the remainder of her life accepted the status of house worker or child’s nurse, without pay.
The article expressed the customary male sentiments of the day, more emphatically than usual because the editors were stirred up over the inroads being made by suffragettes. Radical females like Susan B. Anthony, openly militant in regard to votes for females, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, champion of women’s rights, went striding up and down the country with a following of “bloomer girls.” Nobody knew better than the Dispatch’s managing editor, George A. Madden, that since the Civil War the manpower shortage had increasingly drawn women into mills and factories, but he felt a barricade must be erected against such an alarming trend. Women in politics were unthinkable, as obviously out of place there as they would be in such a masculine stronghold as his own, a newspaper office.
The article received the expected male commendation from Mr. Madden’s business associates. He was happily married and his wife, busy with children, made no comment. Other matters had taken its place in his active editorial mind when a few days later his memory was refreshed. Going through the morning mail, he read a letter and winced. Then he read it again, and a third time, even though it bore no signature, and for a reason. It was a reply to the “What Girls Are Good For” story, and it sizzled. It was a rebuke to the newspaper’s old fashioned attitude, a declaration of independence for women, a war cry to them to take their proper place in a man’s world to lead interesting, useful, and profitable lives.
The anonymous communication was well written, blazing with conviction. But there was more than that to challenge Mr. Madden’s interest. It made sense.
The busy editor finally tossed it into the pile, finished the remainder of the mail, and went back to reading the tissue-paper slips bearing the telegraphic news. But when he had them impaled neatly on the nearby spindle, he took up the letter again. It intrigued him. He studied the handwriting. It appeared feminine, as feminine as the attitude it expressed. But surely no woman could write so logically and so eloquently.
He could not publish the thing, even with a signature. It was against his principles, against popular opinion. But he did want to know who had sent it. An idea came to him. He would advertise in the columns of the Dispatch for the writer’s name and address, and, if he obtained them, he might assign a story to be written on the other side of the question. The author would turn out to be a man, of course, perhaps taking this way to attract attention and get a job. Madden would certainly give him one if he wrote like this consistently.
The advertisement appeared the next day. A reply came almost at once.
The letter was written by a woman. Her name was Elizabeth Cochrane, and she lived in Pittsburgh.
George Madden was a newspaperman by both training and instinct; he always followed a hunch. He wrote to Miss Cochrane and asked for an article on “Girls and Their Spheres in Life.”
Again she was prompt; the article arrived within a few days. The editor read it and found it good. He paid for it. Then he abandoned caution. Fortifying himself, for he was positive he was opening the door to a battle-ax suffragette, he suggested that Elizabeth Cochrane might like to discuss further work for his paper. The two men and Elizabeth accepted a position as reporter for the paper.
Elizabeth Cochran, or Nellie Bly as she was also known, was born on May 5, 1867, in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. According to friends and family, Nellie aspired to be more than what the stereotypical young girl was supposed to be. She liked traveling, adventure, and writing in depth stories. She moved to Pittsburgh at the age of seventeen to pursue her dream of being an investigative reporter. Her first assignment for the Dispatch was to tackle the subject of divorce. She penned numerous articles for the paper ranging from conditions for workers in factories to the treatment of the mentally ill in asylums.
To learn more about Nellie Bly and others like her who left their mark on the American West read Tales Behind the Tombstones: The Deaths and Burials of the Old West’s Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, and Celebrated Lawmen and More Tales Behind the Tombstones: More Deaths and Burials of the Old West's Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, and Celebrated Lawmen.
The BIG Holiday Giveaway
Biggest Giveaway EVER
I’m cleaning out the office and getting ready for a library of new books—AND I want you to subscribe to this blog so you never miss an update, a giveaway or an appearance in your area! And speaking of appearances, I’m adding two more to the 2016 calendar:
The weekend of June 11 at the Buffalo Bill State Historic Park in North Platte, Nebraska and August 18-19 at the Adams Museum in Deadwood, South Dakota. Details I’ll be coming soon, and if you’re interested in hearing more about future appearances register to receive a copy of the monthly newsletter.
Now, back to the big giveaway!!!
GRAND PRIZE: Win a copy of ALL of my books in print including: Entertaining Women: Actresses, Singers, and Dancers of the Old West, Hearts West: Mail Order Brides of the Frontier, The Young Duke: The Story of John Wayne’s Early Life, The Cowboy and the Senorita: The Life and Times of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Happy Trails: A Pictorial of Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and Trigger, Sam Sixkiller: Cherokee Frontier Lawman, and fifteen other titles about women of the Old West. For a total of 20 books!! PLUS a western book bag and $50 Amazon gift card! Now is that a prize or what??
Second prize: You choose TEN of my books and a $25 gift card to Amazon.
Third prize: You choose FIVE of my books and a $15 gift card to Amazon.
All you have to do to enter is use the registration form below. You'll also provide your mailing address and you must be a subscriber of the blog to win. Easy enough, right? If you want to comment and tell me where you’d put that big collection of books in your home, I’d love to hear about it!
Winners will be chosen on Thursday, December 31 and will be posted in the comments of THIS blog, so watch for news on that day! Ready, set, GO!
I’m cleaning out the office and getting ready for a library of new books—AND I want you to subscribe to this blog so you never miss an update, a giveaway or an appearance in your area! And speaking of appearances, I’m adding two more to the 2016 calendar:
The weekend of June 11 at the Buffalo Bill State Historic Park in North Platte, Nebraska and August 18-19 at the Adams Museum in Deadwood, South Dakota. Details I’ll be coming soon, and if you’re interested in hearing more about future appearances register to receive a copy of the monthly newsletter.
Now, back to the big giveaway!!!
GRAND PRIZE: Win a copy of ALL of my books in print including: Entertaining Women: Actresses, Singers, and Dancers of the Old West, Hearts West: Mail Order Brides of the Frontier, The Young Duke: The Story of John Wayne’s Early Life, The Cowboy and the Senorita: The Life and Times of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Happy Trails: A Pictorial of Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and Trigger, Sam Sixkiller: Cherokee Frontier Lawman, and fifteen other titles about women of the Old West. For a total of 20 books!! PLUS a western book bag and $50 Amazon gift card! Now is that a prize or what??
Second prize: You choose TEN of my books and a $25 gift card to Amazon.
Third prize: You choose FIVE of my books and a $15 gift card to Amazon.
All you have to do to enter is use the registration form below. You'll also provide your mailing address and you must be a subscriber of the blog to win. Easy enough, right? If you want to comment and tell me where you’d put that big collection of books in your home, I’d love to hear about it!
Winners will be chosen on Thursday, December 31 and will be posted in the comments of THIS blog, so watch for news on that day! Ready, set, GO!
BIGGEST GIVEAWAY EVER
Biggest Giveaway EVER
I’m cleaning out the office and getting ready for a library of new books—AND I want you to subscribe to this blog so you never miss an update, a giveaway or an appearance in your area! And speaking of appearances, I’m adding two more to the 2016 calendar:
The weekend of June 11 at the Buffalo Bill State Historic Park in North Platte, Nebraska and August 18-19 at the Adams Museum in Deadwood, South Dakota. Details I’ll be coming soon, and if you’re interested in hearing more about future appearances register to receive a copy of the monthly newsletter.
Now, back to the big giveaway!!!
GRAND PRIZE: Win a copy of ALL of my books in print including: Entertaining Women: Actresses, Singers, and Dancers of the Old West, Hearts West: Mail Order Brides of the Frontier, The Young Duke: The Story of John Wayne’s Early Life, The Cowboy and the Senorita: The Life and Times of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Happy Trails: A Pictorial of Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and Trigger, Sam Sixkiller: Cherokee Frontier Lawman, and fifteen other titles about women of the Old West. For a total of 20 books!! PLUS a western book bag and $50 Amazon gift card! Now is that a prize or what??
Second prize: You choose TEN of my books and a $25 gift card to Amazon.
Third prize: You choose FIVE of my books and a $15 gift card to Amazon.
All you have to do to enter is use the registration form below. You'll also provide your mailing address and you must be a subscriber of the blog to win. Easy enough, right? If you want to comment and tell me where you’d put that big collection of books in your home, I’d love to hear about it!
How the West Was Worn: Bustles and Buckskins on the Wild Frontier: Fashion that was in vogue in the East was highly desirable to pioneers during the frontier period of the American West. It was also extraordinarily difficult to obtain, often impractical, and sometimes the clothing was just not durable enough for the men and women who were forging new homes for themselves in the West. Full hoopskirts were of little use in a soddy on the prairie, and chaps and spurs were a vital part of the cowboy's equipment.
How the West Was Worn: Bustles and Buckskins on the Wild Frontier: examines the fashion that shaped the frontier through short essays; brief clips from letters, magazines, and other period sources; and period illustrations demonstrating the sometimes bizarre, often beautiful, and frequently highly inventive ways of dressing oneself in the Old West.
Winners of the BIG GIVEAWAY will be chosen on Thursday, December 31 and will be posted in the comments of THIS blog, so watch for news on that day! Ready, set, GO!
I’m cleaning out the office and getting ready for a library of new books—AND I want you to subscribe to this blog so you never miss an update, a giveaway or an appearance in your area! And speaking of appearances, I’m adding two more to the 2016 calendar:
The weekend of June 11 at the Buffalo Bill State Historic Park in North Platte, Nebraska and August 18-19 at the Adams Museum in Deadwood, South Dakota. Details I’ll be coming soon, and if you’re interested in hearing more about future appearances register to receive a copy of the monthly newsletter.
Now, back to the big giveaway!!!
GRAND PRIZE: Win a copy of ALL of my books in print including: Entertaining Women: Actresses, Singers, and Dancers of the Old West, Hearts West: Mail Order Brides of the Frontier, The Young Duke: The Story of John Wayne’s Early Life, The Cowboy and the Senorita: The Life and Times of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Happy Trails: A Pictorial of Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and Trigger, Sam Sixkiller: Cherokee Frontier Lawman, and fifteen other titles about women of the Old West. For a total of 20 books!! PLUS a western book bag and $50 Amazon gift card! Now is that a prize or what??
Second prize: You choose TEN of my books and a $25 gift card to Amazon.
Third prize: You choose FIVE of my books and a $15 gift card to Amazon.
All you have to do to enter is use the registration form below. You'll also provide your mailing address and you must be a subscriber of the blog to win. Easy enough, right? If you want to comment and tell me where you’d put that big collection of books in your home, I’d love to hear about it!
How the West Was Worn: Bustles and Buckskins on the Wild Frontier: Fashion that was in vogue in the East was highly desirable to pioneers during the frontier period of the American West. It was also extraordinarily difficult to obtain, often impractical, and sometimes the clothing was just not durable enough for the men and women who were forging new homes for themselves in the West. Full hoopskirts were of little use in a soddy on the prairie, and chaps and spurs were a vital part of the cowboy's equipment.
How the West Was Worn: Bustles and Buckskins on the Wild Frontier: examines the fashion that shaped the frontier through short essays; brief clips from letters, magazines, and other period sources; and period illustrations demonstrating the sometimes bizarre, often beautiful, and frequently highly inventive ways of dressing oneself in the Old West.
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