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Frank Little and the IWW

3-7-77, On the Anniversary of Frank Little’s Murder

July 31, 2019

Frank Little and the IWW

The Bisbee Deportation: An Ugly History That Has Not Been Rewritten

Authors and Historians

Home from the Western Writers of America Conference

Frank Little and the IWW / Jane Street and the Rebel Maids

In Remembrance of the Ludlow Massacre, 1914

Frank Little and the IWW / Growing Up in El Paso, TX

Growing up with ASARCO, EL Paso, TX

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 ...

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

By Jane Little Botkin | Mar 11, 2024

During a visit to the Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight Ranch House Museum several years ago, I inquired if there ...

Wanted Miss America Pageant Poster in White

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

By Jane Little Botkin | Sep 4, 2023

It was her dimples that first drew my attention to the Miss America pageant. A more-than-passable piano player with wholesome ...

An old black-and-white photograph of alligators

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

By Jane Little Botkin | Oct 3, 2022

(Photo El Paso Historical Society) Recently I returned to El Paso to visit my past—my classmates, Northeast El Paso’s Milagro ...

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