Mary Trotter Kion

Mary Trotter Kion is a published author of both history and fiction. In addition, she has some six hundred articles published on the Internet concerning American history and women's history of the West. She is the owner of the web site, Women of the West as well as a contributing editor for Suite 101, on the Internet, featuring articles concerning all aspects American History.

Suite 101 presents two study courses she has written on American Western history: The Great American West, 1861 to 1876 and Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1872 to 1876. Mary also contributes articles to the Internet sites Loose Ends, Serene Light, History's Women and Legends of America.

Ms. Kion began her writing career as a journalist while serving in the US Navy WAVES at a military base near Washington D. C. where she was a reporter and the editor for a military newspaper, The Bainbridge Mainsheet during the Cuban Military Crisis. In this position she also conducted her own radio military news broadcast at a civilian radio station near Baltimore, Maryland.

Mary has served as Society Editor for the Blackfoot News of Blackfoot, Idaho and has twice been a top 100 award recipient in the world-wide Writer's Digest Writing Competition in both article and creative writing categories. She has also served as an editor and writer for the Tri-Cities Business Journal in Kennewick, Washington.

Mary Trotter Kion shares her writing life and her home with her best friend, her dog Sitka Sioux, and ten lovable cats.

THE WILD WILD WEST HAS ARRIVED AT SUITE 101 UNIVERSITY

To get in on the action check out these two courses:

THE GREAT AMERICAN WEST, 1861 to 1876,

http://www.suite101.com/course.cfm/17161...

BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN, 1872 to 1876

http://www.suite101.com/course.cfm/17638/seminar

Great American Plains

http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/13796

Mary Trotter Kion also writes for the following:

Loose Ends

http://www.loose-ends.net/

Women of the West

http://www.mkionwritenow.com

Discovering America

http://www.loose-ends.net/articleteaser.php?articleid=301

Serene Light

http://www.serenelight.org/may/toy.htm

http://www.serenelight.org/june/lydia1.htm

Alpine Outlaws: James Butler Hickok

http://www.alpineoutlaws.com/dead_mans_hand.html

Mary Crowley/History's Women

http://www.historyswomen.com/MaryCrowley.html

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