Chris Enss

As a little girl, Mila Tupper dreamed of being a Unitarian minister in an era where most women were still encouraged to keep silent in church. Born in 1864 in Iowa, she would go on to study theology at Cornell and was ordained as a Unitarian pastor the year of her graduation, in 1889, and...

Professional bronc rider Kitty Canutt grabbed a stick of wood lying next to a horse stall at the rodeo grounds in Spokane, Washington, and smacked champion relay racer Donna Card in the mouth with it.  The incident occurred in early September 1918 and was the start of a feud between the cowgirls that would continue...

Two-time Spur Award winning author C.K. Crigger delivers a compelling, action-packed romance with her new title, The Yeggman’s Apprentice. First, a definition: A “yeggman” is a burglar, specifically a person who breaks into safes.  In Crigger’s book, set in the early 20th Century, the yeggman’s apprentice is a young woman.  Wilkie (Wilhelmina) Van Slyke is...

There’s nothing like a good mystery, especially when it involves a wild mustang.  Desert Dust is a fascinating whodunnit that begins with a well-known photograph of a palomino stallion taken in Wyoming in 1945.  Las Vegas Police Investigator R. J. Gillian became acquainted with the famous image of the horse, Desert Dust, as a child...

Ellis Meredith was the daughter of pioneers. Born in Montana Territory, in 1865, she was the daughter of Emily R. Meredith, a well-known advocate for woman suffrage, and Frederick Allison, a journalist. The family had been drawn to the gold-rush boomtown and territorial capital of Bannack Montana, living there for a couple of years before...

Esther Hobart Morris carefully arranged borrowed chairs and warmed, borrowed teacups as she prepared for her visitors to arrive. Her tiny mountain cabin, perched at seventy-five hundred feet of elevation in the mountains at South Pass City, Wyoming Territory, was cleaned, decorated, and full of all of the delectable morsels she could contrive for the...

The lines on the elderly woman’s face were a roadmap of her life—deeply etched like the wagon tracks that had brought her west to the Oregon Territory in 1852. Under the ornate black hat she wore for the momentous occasion, her face was alight with joy and accomplishment. Abigail Jane Scott Duniway was seventy-eight years...

Actress Jeanne Eagels was an attractive, petite entertainer with delicate features.  According to her friends and peers she was childish, adult, reasonable, unreasonable – usually one when she should be the other, but always unpredictable.  The Oscar nominated actress was born Amelia Jean Eagles on June 26, 1890, in Kansas City, Missouri.  She was the...

The Rebellious Rancher by Kate Pearce (Kensington) After his father decides to leave the ranch to his older brother, usually calm, steadfast Ben Miller struggles to deal with his resentment. When he’s invited to develop a trail-riding experience on the Morgans’ dude ranch, Ben jumps at the chance. Soon he’s assigned a mysterious client, an...