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How Many Lives Did Mary Slocumb’s Midnight Ride for Love Save?
by Heather Frey Blanton For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy...
A Lady in Defiance
Nov 26, 20122 min read
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Prologue to A Lady in Defiance
Two of my sisters in Defiance? A Lady in Defiance Book One By Heather Frey Blanton Copyright 2012 Heather Blanton Cover Photography by...
A Lady in Defiance
Nov 21, 20129 min read
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Frances Hart Sheftall–The Jewish American Girl Cornwallis Warned You About
by Heather Frey Blanton Grit. Determination. Playing the violin while rockets burst all around. The current conflict in Israel got me to...
A Lady in Defiance
Nov 19, 20122 min read
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Sweet Revenge — How Susan McSween Really Won the Lincoln County War
by Heather Frey Blanton Imagine you’re a woman living in a western town where a war over money and power is raging. People are being...
A Lady in Defiance
Nov 13, 20122 min read
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Rachel and Grace Martin — How the Girls With Guns Sent ’em Running!
The painting would imply the waylay was more exciting than it actually was. When it comes to South Carolina’s Revolutionary War history,...
A Lady in Defiance
Nov 5, 20122 min read
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The Fire Behind the Ice — Did Wyatt Earp Ever Really Tame Josey?
by Heather Frey Blanton The point of Patriots in Lace is to remind my American sisters (whether they be American by birth or spirit), of...
A Lady in Defiance
Oct 29, 20123 min read
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From Lace to Leather–Nannie Alderson's Bittersweet Montana Life
More than a decade ago, I read A Bride Goes West, the memoirs of Wyoming wife and rancher Nannie Alderson. The book haunts me to this...
A Lady in Defiance
Oct 22, 20123 min read
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Pretty Polly, A Proverbs 31 Woman Who Won the West?
Photos of Joseph Lane abound; not so with Polly. Even the headstone only gives her credit for being his wife. Notice it doesn’t say...
A Lady in Defiance
Oct 8, 20123 min read
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Nellie Cashman—Was this Angel Counting on the Rosary and Betting on the Flag?
In 1850, at about the age of five, Nellie immigrated to Boston with her sister Fanny and widowed-mother. The three spent almost fifteen...
A Lady in Defiance
Oct 1, 20123 min read
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Agent 355–Her Name Might be a Mystery, But is Her Identity Really Still a Secret?
The study of our heroes and heroines is more often than not like trying to track a rabbit. The critter turns, runs, spins, leaves...
A Lady in Defiance
Sep 24, 20123 min read
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