Her entire Indian Wars collection was published in 2003 as Here's to the Ladies: Stories of the Frontier Army.
She was the second woman to earn two Spurs from WWA (which, as everyone knows, is all you need to ride a horse). Two of her stories, A Season for Heroes and Kathleen Flaherty's Long Winter, earned her Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America. (Or as she would be the first to admit, as serious as it gets.)Ĭarla wrote a series of what she now refers to as the "Fort Laramie stories," which are tales of the men, women and children of the Indian Wars era in Western history. Although she had sold some of her work before, it was not until Carla began work in the National Park Service as a ranger/historian at Fort Laramie National Historic Site did she get serious about her writing career.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.Īlthough Carla Kelly is well known among her readers as a writer of Regency romance, her main interest (and first writing success) is Western American fiction-more specifically, writing about America's Indian Wars.
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