Marsha Ward, The Complete Owen FamilySaga is a chronological box
set of the five novels: Gone for a Soldier, The Man from Shenandoah, Spinster's
Folly, Ride to Raton, and Trail of Storms. Join Rod and Julia Owen, their sons,
daughters, and neighbors in Colorado Territory and beyond for action, adventure
and romance in 19th Century America.
Louise
Lenahan Wallace’s short story, “The Warning” is included in Chicken
Soup for the Soul’s The Joy of Christmas under the section Holiday Miracles. And a
miracle it was. I didn’t know where the overpowering feeling of dread was
coming from that Christmas Eve afternoon, but I’m thankful to the depths of my
soul that I heeded it.
AWARDS
Heidi M. Thomas, Dare to Dream and Cowgirl Up! A History of Rodeo Women have both received Finalist awards in the Book Excellence
Awards contest, Dare in the Young
Adult and Cowgirl Up in the
non-fiction categories.
Gaby Pratt, Comanche And The
Mex Girl is a finalist in the Book
Excellence Awards contest, Young Adult category. It’s 1878. Fort Richardson closes. Feisty laundress, Elena
Wade, a sixteen-year-old Anglo/Mexican seizes the moment, takes the gold coins
found in the laundry sheets, lifts a brand new Army issue Colt from the supply
room, buys a horse, and takes off for the Chisholm Trail in search of the
American father she’s never known.
Jan Cleere's biography, Never Don't Pay Attention: The Life of Rodeo Photographer Louise L. Serpa, has
been selected as a Finalist for the Indie Book Awards and as a Finalist for the
New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.Louise Larocque Serpa often said she was born
“in the wrong place, to the wrong woman, at the wrong time.” Born in 1925 and
growing up in New York society with a mother who was never satisfied with her
rather lanky, unpolished daughter, teenager Louise eventually found happiness
when she spent a summer on a Wyoming dude ranch scrubbing toilets, waiting
tables and wrangling cattle. Later in life, she settled in Tucson, Arizona,
where her introduction to photographing rodeos came about after a friend
invited her to watch his children participate in a junior rodeo competition.
