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Mary Ann Goodnight

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

March 11, 2024
Growing Up in El Paso, TX

Phyllis George, the Girl-Next-Door Who Became Miss America

Growing Up in El Paso, TX

Los Lagartos Fountain, What Happened to the San Jacinto Alligators?

Growing Up in El Paso, TX

El Paso, the World of Guyrex

Growing Up in El Paso, TX

The Pink Dress, Memoir of a GuyRex Girl

Group of climbers on a snowy slope

We’re at the Summit, Now What?

By Jane Little Botkin | Mar 20, 2026
Traversing Mount Arapahoe, ca. 1920 Woman’s Club of El Paso Speech March 2026 Did any of you work in an ...
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Hands with red nails typing on laptop

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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