Books
Chipeta: Ute Peacemaker (Filter Press, 2008) part of the middle grade “Now You Know Bio” series. Received the 2009 WILLA Finalist Award in Children’s/YA literature from Women Writing the West.
Chipeta: Queen of the Utes, P. David Smith co-author (Western Reflections Publishing, 2003) - Received the 2004 EVVY Award for Best Biography from Colorado Independent Publishers Association. Selected for the 2006 All-City Read project by Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
Immigration and Illegal Aliens: Burden or Blessing? (Thomson Gale, 2006 and 2008).
The American Family: Reflecting A Changing Nation(Thomson Gale, 2003 and 2005).
Problems With Death, Co-Editor (Greenhaven Press, 2006).
Anthologies
Biography of Notable Sports Figures (Marion Ladewig), Dana Barnes, Editor (The Gale Group, 2003).
“A Night At The Theater,” The Laura Short Fiction Contest Awards Anthology (Women Writing the West) http://womenwritingthewest.org/laura.html
Periodicals
Colorado Country Life: (feature articles) “Exotic Wood Importer” (April 2011), “Shake, Rattle & Roll: Testing trains, tracks, wear and tear” (March 2010); “Melodrama: Heroes, villains, damsels in distress still entertain” (June 2009); “Brown Bombers: Recalling baseball despite the barriers” (April 2009); “Ride The Rails: A day on the train brings history to life” (April 2008); “Music Maker: Pedaling unique instruments from Colorado’s plains” (September 2007); “Nothin’ But Net: Basketball’s always been a slam dunk in Colorado” (March 2007).
Family Chronicle: “Breathe Life Into Your Family History (January/February 2007).
Learning Through History: “The Era of Radio” and “Bakelite Pin” (February 2004).
The Saturday Evening Post: “1930 Census: Paying A Visit To The Past” (September/October 2002).
The Denver Post: “Friendship in the Social Media Age” (October 6, 2010), “Putting the Bones to Rest” (January 10, 2010), “The brutality of cockfighting” (September 5, 2008), “A profit from tobacco” (November 13, 2007), “Kindness on Mulberry Street” (September 12, 2006); colums as Colorado Voices writer 2003: “Spellbound,” “Greetings from 81009,” “Who gets to go to college?,” “The last letter from Maurice,” “The Great Ice Cream Palm-Off,” “The way it should be,” “When cats enter, sanity exits.”
The New York Times: “The Story of Your Family, In Numbers” May 25, 2002.
