Virginia Law Burns
Greetings from my
study at Highmeadow where the bygone tales
originate for you to discover. The books are about heroic
persons, some of which have gained international recognition
for their contributions to bettering the human condition, and
others who have been forgotten by the Michigan history books.
I’ll start with the latest, Bold Women in Michigan History,
a collection of biographies which took three years to complete.
It’s a gathering of fifteen outstanding women’s lives,
painstakingly researched, from fur traders to poets, soldiers
to senators. I aimed to make the stories as fast-paced as
fiction and you’ll find out how these courageous, committed
women made significant contributions, in sometimes unconventional ways.
Here’s a bit from the chapter: Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier.
(Emma is secretly posing as a man.)
“Emma passed a miserable, cold, muddy winter with General Ulysses S.
Grant’s troops near the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg,
Mississippi. There was hardly any food. The year of 1862 ended in a
disastrous defeat for the Union in battles around Fredericksburg,
Virginia, against General Robert E. Lee.
Emma was injured while bandaging a wounded officer during a raging fight.
Her horse, named Rebel, panicked at some noise and kicked her with such
force she flew through the air. She scrambled to her feet, led the horse
to safety, fashioned a sling for her shredded, useless arm and returned
to tend to the injured.”
I’ve written five other books. Enterprise Press offers three
historical fiction novels, based on true happenings, in hardcover.
They are:
William Beaumont: Frontier Doctor
Two biographies, First Frontiers (with Chris Stringer)
and Gentle Hunter: The Biography of Alice Evans, Bacteriologist are also available from Enterprise Press.
If you would like to view some of my press clippings, click here.
Please stay a while, and click your way into some fresh and fascinating Michigan history.
Yours in good reading,
Virginia
