Colorado Author
Joyce B. Lohse
Books & Presentations
about Western Pioneers for:
Students & Writers
Teachers & Librarians
Genealogists
Biography Fans
Western History Buffs
Yellowstone Savages
Photo by Christie Wright,
2008
Meet
Joyce Lohse ...
• Author
• Journalist
• Genealogist
I combine
journalism, genealogy and western history to write biographies.
My goal is to preserve and share stories about pioneers
and history of the American
West through books, articles and presentations
Photo by Don Lohse, 2008
Books
by Joyce:
General William Palmer: Railroad
Pioneer,
2009 Filter Press, CAL 2010 Top Hand Award
Winner
Unsinkable: The Molly Brown Story,
2006,
Filter Press,
CIPA Silver EVVY Award Winner
Justina
Ford: Medical Pioneer,
2004, Filter Press,
CIPA Silver EVVY Award Winner, WILLA Silver Award Winner
First
Governor, First Lady: John and
Eliza Routt
of Colorado,
2002, Filter
Press, CIPA Gold EVVY Award Winner
A
Yellowstone Savage: Life In Nature's Wonderland,
1988, J.D. Charles Publishing
New book coming
soon --
Watch for
Baby Doe Tabor: Matchless Silver Queen
Coming soon from Filter Press, a new
title by Joyce B. Lohse
in the "Now You Know Bio" series -- scheduled to arrive by
Fall 2010!
Celebration time ... WINNER!!!
2010 Colorado Authors' League Top
Hand Award -
Best YA/Juvenile Nonfiction Book
General William Palmer:
Railroad Pioneer
by Joyce B. Lohse
"A Now You Know
Bio"
from Filter Press
Appropriate
for history buffs of all ages!
Judges Comments:
A very well written title for the targeted audience. Quite interesting and
informative, complete with archival photographs that add depth to the text.
Explores a subject of local interest that many students would gladly read
for their local history/famous Coloradoans projects!
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Books through PayPal
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For quantity orders of Now You Know Bios
direct from the publisher:
Distributed for resale
by BooksWest and Baker & Taylor.
In the March 2010 Train Issue of True WestMagazine!
"General Palmer's Baby Railroad"
by Joyce B. Lohse
Also, check out my article,
Retracing Routt,
published in the Holiday Issue 2009/2010 of
Steamboat Magazine.
Recent
Articles by
Joyce B. Lohse
"Young
Palmer Travels Abroad", chapter in Pikes Peak Library District
publication, Legends, Labors, and Loves: William Jackson Palmer, 1836-1907, Spring 2009
"A Season
of Giving, Molly Brown Style", Women Out West
Magazine, Winter/Spring 2009
"The Place
Where Silverheels Danced", Women Out West Magazine, Summer
2008
"Sally
Skull: Texas Legend", Women Out West Magazine, Spring 2008
"Retracing Routt" in Steamboat Magazine, Holiday
Issue, 2009/2010.
"General
Palmer's Baby Railroad" in True West Magazine, March 2010.
"The
Dreaded Reading Level Question," Women Writing the West
Newsletter, Summer 2010.