Come Spring

Pioneers Aura Lee and Daniel Hollingworth and entrepreneur Graham Chapman and his wife Lucinda are at the center of an intense battle between Kansas homesteaders and ambitious, often unscrupulous town builders

Charlotte Hinger won the Western Writers of America Medicine Bearer’s award for Come Spring and was a semi-finalist for the Spur Award. She has published a number of mystery short stories. “The Family Rose,” which first appeared in the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, was later reprinted in two anthologies, Murder on the Verandah and Murder to Music. She was the editor of two comprehensive hardcover volumes of family/county histories and is a member of the international history honor society Phi Alpha Theta. She has served on the board of the Kansas State Historical Society and is on the editorial board of Heritage of the Great Plains, published by Emporia State University. Hinger writes non-fiction about contemporary and historical issues in the rural west as diverse as the modern day Ku Klux Klan and the history of black farmers. She does extensive public speaking. She writes non-fiction about contemporary and historical issues in the rural west. She has a flaming state loyalty to her native Kansas.