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Authors and Historians

My Journey into the Sphere of Memoir

February 2, 2026
Authors and Historians / Mary Ann Goodnight

Writing an Honest Biography

Slow Living in New Mexico

Slow Living in the White Mountain Wilderness

Growing Up in El Paso, TX

A Song, a Movie, and a City

Mary Ann Goodnight

I Accepted a Challenge: Researching and Writing Mary Ann Goodnight’s Story

My Journey into the Sphere of Memoir

By Jane Little Botkin | Feb 2, 2026
I picked up my nine-year-old grandson from school recently. After throwing his backpack onto the car’s floorboard while climbing into ...
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Green book cover with buffalo illustration.

Writing an Honest Biography

By Jane Little Botkin | Aug 16, 2025
At the WWA conference in Amarillo in 1983, famous western biographer J. Evetts Haley recalled reading Thirty-One Years on the ...
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Forest fire with smoke near a lake.

Slow Living in the White Mountain Wilderness

By Jane Little Botkin | May 29, 2024
Eight years ago, my husband and I decided to purchase a recreational home, i.e., a cabin, in Ruidoso, New Mexico, ...
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Man with hand on chin, album cover.

A Song, a Movie, and a City

By Jane Little Botkin | Apr 24, 2024
When Marty Robbins first made a West Texas town famous with his hit song “El Paso,” he did more than ...
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