Janelle Molony (She/Her)
Janelle Molony, M.S.L. is an avid family historian who features incredible women from the past in her critically acclaimed nonfictions. While researching her family’s Oregon Trail story, she discovered one of the largest Civil War engagements in the West! Her latest, "Emigrant Tales of the Platte River Raids," was awarded the WILLA Award for scholarly nonfiction and the GOLD award for U.S. History books by the American Writing Awards (among many others). Her most recent discoveries have been printed in pages of the Tombstone Epitaph and will soon appear on the cover of the Wild West History Association’s prestigious journal.
Molony is a member of the Western Writers of America, Western Association of Women Historians, Women Writing the West and the Oregon-California Trails Association. She hosts the interview series, Women of Wyoming: Then & Now, a special project of the Wyoming Historical Society and of the State Parks & Cultural Resources. Her lively storytelling and vibrant video content has earned her the official moniker as the Hottie Historian.
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Lynn Downey
Location: Indie Author Booth. Dude or Die (2023, Pronghorn Press). It’s 1954, and San Francisco writer Phoebe Kelley is enjoying the success of her first novel, Lady in the Desert. When her sister-in-law asks her to return to Tribulation, Arizona to help run the H Double Bar Dude Ranch, Phoebe doesn’t hesitate.
There’s competition from a new dude ranch this year, so the H Double Bar puts on a rodeo featuring a trick rider with a mysterious past. When accidents begin to happen around the ranch, Phoebe jumps in to figure out why, and confronts an unexpected foe. Dude or Die is the second book in Lynn Downey’s award-winning H Double Bar Dude Ranch series.
Hottie Historian Collective, Booth #185 (Seats 1)
Sat, Mar 15, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
History / Biography
Author:
Lynn Downey
Heidi Osselar
Location: Booth 185. Arizona's Deadliest Gunfight (2018), A plunge into the 1918 stand off between the dissident Powers family and the U.S. law. Winning Their Place: Arizona's Women in Politics (2009), chronicling the entrance of women in the field called an "impressive" historiography from suffrage to victory.
Hottie Historian Collective, Booth #185 (Seats 1)
Sat, Mar 15, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
History / Biography
Jane Little Botkin
Location: Booth 185. The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen (2024, She Writes Press). A pink, rose-covered gown--a Guyrex creation--symbolizes the fairy tale life that young women in Jane's time imagined beauty queens had. The Pink Dress isn't a beautiful walk down memory lane.
Hottie Historian Collective, Booth #185 (Seats 1)
Sat, Mar 15, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
History / Biography
Author:
Jane Botkin
Janelle Molony
Location: Booth 185. Emigrant Tales of the Platte River Raids, 11-time literary award winner and descendant authenticated story of a pivotal Civil War engagement on the American Frontier, ft. families of Wyatt Earp, Daniel Boone, Johnny Ringo and John Brown. The 1864 Diary of Mrs. Sarah Jane Rousseau, the critically acclaimed diary that takes readers West through the eyes of a prestiged Londoner being led West by the father of Wyatt Earp.
Hottie Historian Collective, Booth #185 (Seats 1)
Sat, Mar 15, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
History / Biography
Author:
Janelle Molony
Lynn Downey
Location: Booth 185. Dude or Die (2023, Pronghorn Press). It’s 1954, and San Francisco writer Phoebe Kelley is enjoying the success of her first novel, Lady in the Desert. When her sister-in-law asks her to return to Tribulation, Arizona to help run the H Double Bar Dude Ranch, Phoebe doesn’t hesitate.
Hottie Historian Collective, Booth #185 (Seats 1)
Sat, Mar 15, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
History / Biography
Author:
Lynn Downey
Indie Authors ~ Adult Fiction and Nonfiction
Indie Authors - Adult Fiction and Nonfiction (Seats 20)
Sun, Mar 16, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Authors:
Patricia Boomsma,
Bonnie Callahan,
Paul Crews,
Joe Egan,
Ann Evans,
Ellen Fisher,
GK Jurrens,
Cassie Leonard,
Lezlee Liljenberg,
Angela Rose and Mary Kane,
Patricia McNair,
Janelle Molony,
Karla Morton,
Sandra Richmond,
Susan Rukeyser,
Kenneth Strange,
Nancy Nau Sullivan,
Ashley Sweeney,
J. B. Velasquez,
Michael Woudenberg
Janelle Molony
Location: Indie Author Booth. Emigrant Tales of the Platte River Raids (M Press Publishing, 2023). One of the largest Civil War engagements in the West ft. the now-legendary families of Wyatt Earp, Johnny Ringo, John Brown and Daniel Boone... as told primarily by women's trail diaries, letters and reminiscences and corroborated by military accounts. Winner of the Women Writing the West's WILLA Award for Scholarly Nonfiction and the American Writing Awards' GOLD recipient for books on U.S. History.
Hottie Historian Collective, Booth #185 (Seats 1)
Sun, Mar 16, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
History / Biography
Author:
Janelle Molony
Jane Little Botkin
Location: Booth 185. The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen (2024, She Writes Press). A pink, rose-covered gown--a Guyrex creation--symbolizes the fairy tale life that young women in Jane's time imagined beauty queens had. The Pink Dress isn't a beautiful walk down memory lane.
Hottie Historian Collective, Booth #185 (Seats 1)
Sun, Mar 16, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
History / Biography
Author:
Jane Botkin
Lynn Downey
Location: Booth 185. Dude or Die (2023, Pronghorn Press). It’s 1954, and San Francisco writer Phoebe Kelley is enjoying the success of her first novel, Lady in the Desert. When her sister-in-law asks her to return to Tribulation, Arizona to help run the H Double Bar Dude Ranch, Phoebe doesn’t hesitate.
Hottie Historian Collective, Booth #185 (Seats 1)
Sun, Mar 16, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
History / Biography
Author:
Lynn Downey
Heidi Osselar
Location: Booth 185. Arizona's Deadliest Gunfight (2018), A plunge into the 1918 stand off between the dissident Powers family and the U.S. law. Winning Their Place: Arizona's Women in Politics (2009), chronicling the entrance of women in the field called an "impressive" historiography from suffrage to victory.
Hottie Historian Collective, Booth #185 (Seats 1)
Sun, Mar 16, 10:00 am - 11:00 am
History / Biography
Janelle Molony
Location: Booth 185. Emigrant Tales of the Platte River Raids, 11-time literary award winner and descendant authenticated story of a pivotal Civil War engagement on the American Frontier, ft. families of Wyatt Earp, Daniel Boone, Johnny Ringo and John Brown. The 1864 Diary of Mrs. Sarah Jane Rousseau, the critically acclaimed diary that takes readers West through the eyes of a prestiged Londoner being led West by the father of Wyatt Earp.
Hottie Historian Collective, Booth #185 (Seats 1)
Sun, Mar 16, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
History / Biography
Author:
Janelle Molony
Jane Little Botkin
Location: Student Union, Santa Rita Room. The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen (2024, She Writes Press). A pink, rose-covered gown--a Guyrex creation--symbolizes the fairy tale life that young women in Jane's time imagined beauty queens had. The Pink Dress isn't a beautiful walk down memory lane.
Hottie Historian Collective, Booth #185 (Seats 1)
Sun, Mar 16, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
History / Biography
Author:
Jane Botkin
Book:
Emigrant Tales of the Platte River Raids
History / Biography
M Press Publishing
December 2023
ISBN 9781734463873
544 pages
