The team is hitched up and the stage is ready to roll, so hop aboard and settle back for another Six-Gun Justice Speed Listen installment. Today, co-host Paul Bishop is joined by wordslinger Jane Little Botkin, for the next in the occasional installments featuring Wild Women of the West.
Jane is renown for scouring the West for firsthand sources in family diaries, libraries, and museums in order to collect the 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. Her latest book, The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver is the story of wild west activist Jane Street—a young woman and single mother—who in 1916, in the wake of the violent labor disputes in Colorado’s two-year Coalfield War, took a stand to change the status quo for the girls—the domestic maids well-to-do women in Denver referred to their hired help, abusing them at will as they considered them as only one step above prostitutes.