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Petticoat Prisoners of Old Wyoming
Book by Brown, Larry K.
253 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2000
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About the author
Larry K. Brown
7 books1 followerBrown’s writing credits include six books, plus articles in such non-fiction periodicals as Wild West, True West, Old West, American Cowboy, Cowboy, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame’’s Persimmon Hill, The Roundup of Western Writers of America, Wyoming Magazine, Annals of Wyoming, Wyoming History Journal, Comptons Encyclopedia Yearbook as well as the journals of the National and Western Outlaw and Lawman associations. His short stories also have been published in the prestigious High Plains Register literary-arts magazine.
Wyoming Writers, Inc. honored his Hog Ranches of Wyoming: Liquor, Lust, and Lies Under Sagebrush Skies [Glendo, WY: High Plains Press, 1995] with a "Western Horizon Award." The following year, Cambridge University Press, England, the oldest press in the world, selected the book’s text for inclusion in its computerized lexicon. The electronic database is designed for use as a tool for language researchers in creating dictionaries and other reference books for students learning English as a second language.
The Old Pen Joint Powers Board in Rawlins, WY, published his Petticoat Prisoners of the Wyoming Frontier Prison in 1995 while his third, fourth and fifth books, You are Respectfully Invited to Attend My Execution (1997), Petticoat Prisoners of Old Wyoming (2001) –– a recipient of a coveted Wyoming State Historical Society "Publications Award", and Coyotes and Canaries: Characters Who Made the West Wild . . . and Wonderful! (2002) –– were published by High Plains Press, respectively, in 1997 and 2001. Brown currently is working with the State of Wyoming’s Department of State Parks & Cultural Resources (Division of Cultural Resources), officials in developing a series of “Coyotes and Canaries” videos featuring characters, base on his book.
His writings appear as well in such books as Buckskin, Bullets, and Beans: Good Eats and Good Reads from the Western Writers of America (Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Publishing, 1997), The Wyoming Almanac (Laramie, WY: Skyline West Press, annually since 1994), and Outlaws and Lawmen of the Old West: The Best of the NOLA Quarterly (Cave Creek, AZ: Barbed Wire Press, 2001). Brown’’s "Shoot Out the Old Year" article, which originally appeared in the July-September 1997 issue of NOLA Quarterly, was but one of only twenty-five stories selected of the many written by members since the National Outlaw and Lawman Association was founded in 1974.
His latest book for High Plains Press, Bad in the Good Old Days, contains thirteen little know stories about some of the most unusually notorious men and women criminal, who ever rode the a western range.
Larry, was the Membership Chairman for Western Writers of America from 1999 through 2008. He and his wife, Florence make their home in Cheyenne. They have four grown children.
Wyoming Writers, Inc. honored his Hog Ranches of Wyoming: Liquor, Lust, and Lies Under Sagebrush Skies [Glendo, WY: High Plains Press, 1995] with a "Western Horizon Award." The following year, Cambridge University Press, England, the oldest press in the world, selected the book’s text for inclusion in its computerized lexicon. The electronic database is designed for use as a tool for language researchers in creating dictionaries and other reference books for students learning English as a second language.
The Old Pen Joint Powers Board in Rawlins, WY, published his Petticoat Prisoners of the Wyoming Frontier Prison in 1995 while his third, fourth and fifth books, You are Respectfully Invited to Attend My Execution (1997), Petticoat Prisoners of Old Wyoming (2001) –– a recipient of a coveted Wyoming State Historical Society "Publications Award", and Coyotes and Canaries: Characters Who Made the West Wild . . . and Wonderful! (2002) –– were published by High Plains Press, respectively, in 1997 and 2001. Brown currently is working with the State of Wyoming’s Department of State Parks & Cultural Resources (Division of Cultural Resources), officials in developing a series of “Coyotes and Canaries” videos featuring characters, base on his book.
His writings appear as well in such books as Buckskin, Bullets, and Beans: Good Eats and Good Reads from the Western Writers of America (Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Publishing, 1997), The Wyoming Almanac (Laramie, WY: Skyline West Press, annually since 1994), and Outlaws and Lawmen of the Old West: The Best of the NOLA Quarterly (Cave Creek, AZ: Barbed Wire Press, 2001). Brown’’s "Shoot Out the Old Year" article, which originally appeared in the July-September 1997 issue of NOLA Quarterly, was but one of only twenty-five stories selected of the many written by members since the National Outlaw and Lawman Association was founded in 1974.
His latest book for High Plains Press, Bad in the Good Old Days, contains thirteen little know stories about some of the most unusually notorious men and women criminal, who ever rode the a western range.
Larry, was the Membership Chairman for Western Writers of America from 1999 through 2008. He and his wife, Florence make their home in Cheyenne. They have four grown children.
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June 12, 2023
I purchased this book in the gift shop at the historic Wyoming Territorial Prison after my tour. I always end up picking up a book or two after a historical tour. This book was well researched and had great information. I did enjoy the book but the author's physical descriptions of the women were occasionally racist, and heavily influenced by subjective standards of beauty. He also made some assumptions about thoughts and motives that I just didn't jive with the historicity.
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