Her entry begins:
This summer when I began a new fiction book set in North Dakota, I searched out books by and about the 39th state. That's how I found Louise Erdrich and her fabulous books set on and off the Dakota reservation. Love Medicine is an acclaimed look inside the Dakota culture through several generations...[read on]About Cattle Kate, from the publisher:
Cattle Kate is the only woman ever lynched as a cattle rustler. History called it “range land justice” when she was strung upVisit Jana Bommersbach's website.in Wyoming Territory on July 20, 1889, tarring her as a dirty thief and a filthy whore.
But history was wrong. It was all a lie.
Her real name was Ella Watson. She wasn't a rustler. She wasn't a whore. And she'd never been called Cattle Kate until she was dead and they needed an excuse. She was really a 29-year-old immigrant homesteader, lynched with her husband by her rich and powerful cattle-baron neighbors who wanted her land and its precious water rights.
Now, on the 125th anniversary of her murder, the real Ella comes alive in Cattle Kate to tell her heartbreaking story. Jana Bommersbach’s debut novel bares a legend central to the western experience.
Writers Read: Jana Bommersbach.
--Marshal Zeringue
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