Shirlee Evans

Shirlee Evans began writing early in life, continuing into marriage while raising her two sons. Upon release of her first book, she worked as a newspaper reporter, granted a 1975 Washington State Society of Professional Journalists award for Investigative Journalism. Leaving the paper, she concentrated on “books that begged to be told". She was about to send off her seventh when her mother and her husband were both diagnosed with dementia. Everything came to a halt as she turned to caregiving until after their deaths. She eased back into writing by contributing to Guideposts Magazines while at the same time volunteering as Frontier Missions’ newsletter editor. It was while there that she met Darrell New Plenty Stars and his wife Rose, Native Americans from SD’s Pine Ridge Reservation. Shirlee ghost authored their amazing story, From the Flames of Wounded Knee to the Center of God’s Will, published in 2008. The release of No Belonging Place and Their Troubled Trailsb now culminates years researching the Bonney families who went west during our country’s expansion in the mid-1800s. Written as historical fiction the second book tells of the Bonney’s interaction with John Fremont, Kit Carson, Capt. John Sutter, Dr. John McLoughlin, and the Donner Party. Most interesting was Jane Bonney’s reaction to the natives they came upon after she was orphaned and partially scalped in New York at age three during the War of 1812.

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