Educator and Historian Jane (Janie) Little Botkin, a Spur Award-winning biographer, seeks compelling stories of women, miners, lawmen and outlaws. Her most recent bio is The Girl Who Dared to Defy (University of Oklahoma Press, 2021) about activist Jane Street. The Texas State Legislature honored Janie, a retired educator, by formal resolution. More recently she was elected to the WWA Board of Directors. Janie and her husband reside in the White Mountain Wilderness above Nogal, New Mexico, wher


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