WILD WEST STAMPS—BUFFALO BILL

SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—JANE BOTKIN

SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS

JANE BOTKIN

Wild West Wednesday just got a little wilder as co-host Paul Bishop chats with Jane Little Botkin about labor strikes on the frontier, legendary lawmen, and great-grandmothers of possible ill repute...All part of another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment... 

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WESTERN NON-FICTION—JANE STREET: THE GIRL WHO DARED TO DEFY

WESTERN NON- FICTION

JANE STREET

THE GIRL WHO DARED TO DEFY

In the wake of the violent labor disputes in Colorado’s two-year Coalfield War, a young woman and single mother resolved in 1916 to change the status quo for “girls,” as well-to-do women in Denver referred to their hired help. Her name was Jane Street, and this compelling biography is the first to chronicle her defiant efforts—and devastating misfortunes—as a leader of the so-called housemaid rebellion.

A native of Indiana, Jane Street (1887–1966) began her activist endeavors as an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). In riveting detail, author Jane Little Botkin recounts Street’s attempts to orchestrate a domestic mutiny against Denver’s elitist Capitol Hill women, including wives of the state’s national guard officers and Colorado Fuel and Iron operators. It did not take long for the housemaid rebellion to make local and national news.

Despite the IWW’s initial support of the housemaids’ fight for fairness and better pay, Street soon found herself engaged in a gender war, the target of sexism within the very organization she worked so hard to support. The abuses she suffered ranged from sabotage and betrayal to arrests and abandonment. After the United States entered World War I and the first Red Scare arose, Street’s battle to balance motherhood and labor organizing began to take its toll. Legal troubles, broken relationships, and poverty threatened her very existence.

In previous western labor and women’s studies accounts, Jane Street has figured only marginally, credited in passing as the founder of a housemaids’ union. To unearth the rich detail of her story, Botkin has combed through case histories, family archives, and—perhaps most significant—Street’s own writings, which express her greatest joys, her deepest sorrows, and her unfortunate dealings with systematic injustice. Setting Jane’s story within the wider context of early-twentieth-century class struggles and the women’s suffrage movement, The Girl Who Dared to Defy paints a fascinating—and ultimately heartbreaking—portrait of one woman’s courageous fight for equality.

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN—JANE STREET

SIX-GUN JUSTICE SPEED LISTEN

JANE STREET

The team is hitched up and the stage is ready to roll, so hop aboard and settle back for another Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen installment. Today, co-host Paul Bishop is joined by wordslinger Jane Little Botkin, for the next in the occasional installments featuring Wild Women of the West...

Jane is renown for scouring the West for firsthand sources in family diaries, libraries, and museums in order to collect the personal narratives of American families with compelling stories of labor radicals, miners, lawmen, and outlaws in settings rich with a history that transitions into the New West. Her latest book, The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver is the story of wild west activist Jane Street—a young woman and single mother—who in 1916, in the wake of the violent labor disputes in Colorado’s two-year Coalfield War, took a stand to change the status quo for the 'girls'—the domestic maids  well-to-do women in Denver referred to their hired help, abusing them at will as they considered them as only one step above prostitutes...

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—MELODY GROVES

SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS

MELODY GROVES

It's Wild West Wednesday and time to join co-host Richard Prosch as he chats with New Mexico native Melody Groves. Winner of numerous writing awards, Melody's novels include Border Ambush, Sonoran Rage, Arizona War, Kansas Bleeds, and Black Range Revenge. In addition, she also writes for True West, Wild West, Enchantment Magazine, and New Mexico Magazine, among others. In 2018, she won the prestigious National Press Women Award for her True West Magazine article on Albuquerque’s first town marshal who got himself (justifiably) hanged. 

She has also authored She Was Sheriff and the upcoming Lady of the Law—The Maud Overstreet Saga. Her other non-fiction titles  include, Ropes, Reins and Rawhide: All About Rodeo (UNM Press); Butterfield’s Byways: America’s Longest Mail Route Across the West (History Press); Hoist a Cold One! Historic Bars of the Southwest (UNM Press); and When Outlaws Wore Badges. In her spare time, she plays rhythm guitar with the Jammy Time Band...Available now on all major podcast streaming platforms or by clicking the player below...  

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SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST EPISODE 38—THE LEGEND OF CUSTER PART 2

SIX-GUN JUSTICE PODCAST

EPISODE 38

THE LEGEND OF CUSTER

PART TWO

Grab your cavalry hat with the arrow through it and join co-hosts Paul Bishop and Richard Prosch as they charge into another episode of the Six-Gun Justice Podcast alongside one of the most controversial figures in the history of the West—General George Armstrong Custer—as he faces down the fate of every bad decision he ever made at the Battle of Little Big Horn...Available now on all major podcast streaming platforms or by clicking the player below...

WESTERN TIE-INS—GOLDEN STAMP BOOKS

 

 

SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS—MICHAEL GEAR & KATHERINE O'NEAL GEAR

SIX-GUN JUSTICE CONVERSATIONS

MICHAEL GEAR & KATHERINE O'NEAL GEAR

It's Wild West Wednesday and time to gather around the corral for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment...Today co-host Paul Bishop jaws with  New York Times bestselling authors, W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear.  

With over 17 million copies of their books in print in 29 different languages, they have recently been awarded 2021 Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contributions to Western Literature by the Western Writers of America, and are soon to be inducted in the Western Writers Hall of Fame at the McCracken Library in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. They are the first Wyoming authors and also the first co-authors to receive this honor...

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