Spearfishian channels Calamity Jane

Spearfish author Jeannie Hudson has quite the story to tell. And she also just wrote her fifth novel.

As she told Tom Griffith of the Rapid City Journal:

"Then her agent died, she divorced her husband and the bottom fell out of the publishing industry. Stymied by the dry spell, she accepted a job in cable advertising sales and moved to south central Minnesota, where she would spend the next 15 years in a haze as a “high-functioning alcoholic.”

"She married Tom Dormady in 1990, watched him die of bone cancer in 2005, and suffered through four unsuccessful treatments for alcoholism before the fifth treatment stuck. After meeting her current husband, Adam Hudson, at Dormady’s funeral, she moved to Spearfish, married and resumed writing."

Her book is titled: "“Behold A Lone Horseman,” and is available through Amazon. It "recounts the adventures of 17-year-old Regan Townsend, who accompanies Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Colorado Charlie Utter from Cheyenne to Deadwood in the summer of 1876."