It’s Friday the 13th. It’s a day that some might call “peculiar.” I think the Wild West was probably shaped by many “peculiar” and “headstrong” people, so…it’s time to meet the minister’s daughter who was called both of those words.

Meet Alice Moore McComas who, at age fifteen, left home to attend church but instead took the train to St. Louis to make her own fortune…only to be “persuaded” to return home one week later and conform to the current image of a 1860s woman…until her “removal to” California 22 years later when she finally found a way to write freely under her own name….

Read the rest on the March edition of my monthly blog with Cowboy Kisses.