Meet the Kellys

Praise

Praise for Chris Enss

“Chris Enss delivers the goods on Machine Gun Kelly, who moved from the upper middle class and college to become an infamous Prohibition-era gangster with his moll, Kathryn Thorne. Thoroughly researched with exciting new details!” —Meyer Lansky II, grandson of Meyer Lansky and author of The Lansky Legacy: The Life and Letters of Meyer Lansky on Meet the Kellys

“A meticulously documented history and biography that reads like an action/adventure novel from start to finish, Meet the Kellys: The True Story of Machine Gun Kelly and His Moll Kathryn Thorne will be of particular appeal to readers with an interest in the outlaws that made headlines during the Roaring Twenties era of the Great Depression, Prohibition bootlegging, and notorious bank robbers and kidnappers. An inherently fascinating and riveting read.” —Midwest Book Review

“Historian Enss profiles in this colorful account 10 of the first female physicians on America’s Western frontier. . . . insightful.” ―Publishers Weekly on The Doctor Was a Woman

“A collection of tales about real superhero women and how they won respect.” ―Library Journal on The Doctor Was a Woman

“In this detailed account of the star-crossed lovers, the author—who is known for her books on Western women—plumbs both Colorado and British resources. In Enss’ hands, Bird is not a female oddity, but a woman of strength, courage and loyalty.” ―The Denver Post on The Lady and the Mountain Man

“Entertaining.” ―New York Journal of Books on The Doctor Was a Woman

“The rigor of the scholarly research on display here is quite simply astonishing, as the authors seem to leave no stone unturned.” ―Kirkus Reviews on The Widowed Ones

“If countless books and movies are to be believed, America’s Wild West was, at heart, a man’s world. New York Times bestselling author Chris Enss, takes on this stereotype, telling the stories of seventeen courageous women who faced down schoolrooms full of children on the open prairies and in the cattle and mining towns of the Old West.” ―The Union on Frontier Teachers

“A new perspective on an oft-overlooked facet of the Spirit of the West and its influence on the nation.” ―HistoryNet on No Place for a Woman