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Welcome to Jane Little Botkin

Welcome to Jane Little Botkin

Having scoured the West for firsthand sources in family, library, and museum collections, award-winning author Jane Little Botkin melds 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.

Welcome to Jane Little Botkin

Having scoured the West for firsthand sources in family, library, and museum collections, award-winning author Jane Little Botkin melds personal narratives of American families with compelling stories of western women, labor radicals, miners, lawmen, and outlaws in settings rich with a history that transitions into the New West.

Jane is currently researching for her new biographies on Molly Goodnight, Little Mother of the Plains and Hank Boedeker, Friend of Butch Cassidy. Check here for updates.

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Local Author Spotlight, March 2, 2021

Tales from the Reuther Library, April 15, 2021

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We’re at the Summit, Now What?

By Jane Little Botkin | March 20, 2026
Traversing Mount Arapahoe, ca. 1920 Woman’s Club of El Paso Speech March 2026 Did any of you work in an office in the 1970s? Were any of you required to bring coffee to your boss? And was that boss male? I recall working on the 5th floor of the old El Paso Natural Gas Company…
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My Journey into the Sphere of Memoir

By Jane Little Botkin | February 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 the seat simultaneously, he sighed.  My cue. “How was school today?” Cam gave me a side glance. “I’m writing the story of my life, and it’s so hard.” “Why is it hard?” I asked. “Because…
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Writing an Honest Biography

By Jane Little Botkin | August 16, 2025
At the WWA conference in Amarillo in 1983, famous western biographer J. Evetts Haley recalled reading Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains when he was a boy. The author, Captain William F. Drannan, claimed to be an adopted son of Kit Carson. Stories of trapping beaver, hunting buffalo, and chasing wild horses…
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