Thank
you Katheryn for having me today. I’m
going to talk about where the ideas for some of my books came from.
I
have a western series of books, set in Creede, Colorado. This is a real town and has been around since
the late 1800’s. I set my books here on
a ranch that is still in existence today, though it is a dude ranch now not a working
ranch. My parents met on this ranch in
the early 1940’s. It was still a real
working ranch then as well as a ‘dude’ ranch.
My
mother came up from Texas with a young boy she was caring for. She was called a nursemaid. Now we would call her a nanny. He had asthma and could breathe better at the
higher altitudes. Probably because the
air was drier and cleaner. Less
dust. Anyway, she and the boy stayed for
the summer.
