Jane Little Botkin, Author

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Growing up with ASARCO, EL Paso, TX

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The University of Oklahoma Press recently released a new book that certainly caught my attention.  Copper Stain,  by Elaine Hampton and Cy...
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Friday, February 1, 2019

Jane Street and the Rebel Maids: Sex, Syndicalism, and Denver's Capitol Hill

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Moving along quickly on my new book, that is what I can tell you.  Hence my absence from the blog!  This is what I can share with you: ...
Monday, November 5, 2018

Anniversary of the Everett Massacre

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Today is the anniversary of a horrific incident (which seems too mild of a word to use), where innocent men lost their lives at the hands of...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

La Bruja de Calle Piedmont

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This morning I had one of those rare moments, reveries really, when I was back in El Paso. Perhaps it’s because today is Halloween, or be...
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Saturday, October 27, 2018

The Bindle Stiff

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When I was a kid at Halloween in El Paso, Texas, I often resorted to the easiest costume I could put together, short of cutting two holes in...
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Woodie Guthrie, Another Life Cut Short

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I'm busy preparing my presentation for the High Plains Book Festival so no new post. Since today is the anniversary of American folk si...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

David Street, Hollywood Actor

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I just returned from interviewing Jane Street’s grandson and gained a wealth of information.   He had already destroyed some of her work, ...
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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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