Jane Little Botkin, Author

Friday, August 24, 2018

The Dude Was Born, and the Western Rockies Have Never Been the Same

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On my way home from Lander, Wyoming, after a horrible start, so bad that I questioned the wisdom in flying out last week. My Southwest Airl...
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Monday, August 20, 2018

The Best Part of a Story Is When It Changes

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My mom died. It is a strange feeling being an orphan at my age. I am uncomfortable with the void I feel. I talked to her every day for the l...
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Thursday, August 16, 2018

Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys

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I email Bump Boedeker’s bronc image to Sarah. I hope the new discovery peaks her interest in her heritage. Cowboys may not impress her much...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Bump Boedeker, Ride "'Em, Cowboy!"

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Taking care of a dying person is draining, but I can fend off depression by concentrating on the Boedeker family. This tack triggers anothe...
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Researching Wyoming's Boedekers, Truth or Legend?

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A famous quote best describes the written lore of Lawman Hank Boedeker: "When confronted with the truth or the legend, print the leg...
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Jane Little Botkin
Award-winning author ​Jane (Janie) Little Botkin is a retired teacher turned historical investigator and author. After graduating from the University of Texas at El Paso with a BA in English, Jane taught high school students for thirty years and supervised fifteen volumes of the student-publication A History of Dripping Springs and Hays County (1993-2008), a valuable historical resource for Texas researchers. In 2008 the Texas State Legislature honored her career in education by formal resolution. In post-retirement, Jane has continued to write about and participate in local historic preservation, dividing her time between communities in the Texas Hill Country and New Mexico’s White Mountain Wilderness. Frank Little and the IWW : The Blood That Stained an American Family is her first nonfiction book, winner of two 2018 Spur Awards from Western Writers of America. The subject of the book is Botkin’s great-granduncle, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, who was lynched for his words on August 1, 1917. Jane is currently working on her second book, Jane Street and the Rebel Maids: Sex, Syndicalism, and Denver's Capitol Hill.
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