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The Widowed Ones Wins the PenCraft Book Awards

Posted on January 21, 2023 by Chris Enss

After several days on the Women Behaving Badly book tour, I returned home to the news that The Widowed Ones: Beyond the Battle of the Little Bighorn has been selected as the

Best Historical Nonfiction book of 2022 by the PenCraft Book Awards.

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“Going to see Bonnie and Clyde at a local drive-in was the start of my interest in the Great Depression and that era's gangsters. Bonnie and Clyde. Pretty Boy Floyd. John Dillinger. Ma Barker. Bugs Moran. I'm not quite sure why I found these gangsters to be so fascinating. I didn't think they were romantic. I certainly didn't want to emulate them. I think it probably had something to do with how people reacted to and survived the Great Depression. So, it's no wonder that when I heard about Meet the Kellys that I wanted to read it.

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