Cattle Kate
A Novel

Westward Ho!! Cattle Kate was a delicately raised rule follower, but she had to break away, and break away she did. Ella Watson's story is creatively told and keeps your interest from the first page. "Taming" the west really wasn't for women was it? ​Even though it may not have been for women, homeste......more

I started this book thinking it was a biography or a history of the events surrounding the notorious Cattle Kate. I hadn't heard of her before, but it sounded like an interesting story of murder in the Wyoming Territory in the 1880s. Then I realized I had stumbled on a work of fiction. This book is......more

I probably would not have picked up this book had it not been sent to me and I would have missed out on an exceptional work of historical fiction about a very strong women known as Cattle Kate who lived in the late 19th century west. I was fascinated immediately and thoroughly enjoyed this book. I h......more

2014 278 pages plus this is a well documented book about the first woman hung for cattle rustling. Documents prove Kate did have a legal branding iron, the land barons wanted her out so they stole her small herd, rebanded, accused. The author spent a lot of time researching this book with the documen......more

Award-winning journalist and author, Bommersbach brings to this moving thoughtful novel, years of careful research, good writing and yes, a jaundiced eye. Those attributes are particularly important for this project because the author is directly confronting long-standing scurrilous myth about the......more