Mary Trotter Kion

Contributing Writer
Mary Trotter Kion - unknown
Mary Trotter Kion - unknown

Mary Trotter Kion is a published author of both history and fiction. In addition, she has some six hundred articles published on the Internet concerning American history and women's history of the West. She is the owner of the web site, Women of the West as well as a contributing editor for Suite 101, on the Internet, featuring articles concerning all aspects American History.

Suite 101 presents two study courses she has written on American Western history: The Great American West, 1861 to 1876 and Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1872 to 1876. Mary also contributes articles to the Internet sites Loose Ends, Serene Light, History's Women and Legends of America.

Ms. Kion began her writing career as a journalist while serving in the US Navy WAVES at a military base near Washington D. C. where she was a reporter and the editor for a military newspaper, The Bainbridge Mainsheet during the Cuban Military Crisis. In this position she also conducted her own radio military news broadcast at a civilian radio station near Baltimore, Maryland.

Mary has served as Society Editor for the Blackfoot News of Blackfoot, Idaho and has twice been a top 100 award recipient in the world-wide Writer's Digest Writing Competition in both article and creative writing categories. She has also served as an editor and writer for the Tri-Cities Business Journal in Kennewick, Washington.

Mary Trotter Kion shares her writing life and her home with her best friend, her dog Sitka Sioux, and ten lovable cats.

THE WILD WILD WEST HAS ARRIVED AT SUITE 101 UNIVERSITY

To get in on the action check out these two courses:

THE GREAT AMERICAN WEST, 1861 to 1876,

http://www.suite101.com/course.cfm/17161...

BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN, 1872 to 1876

http://www.suite101.com/course.cfm/17638/seminar

Great American Plains

http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/13796

Mary Trotter Kion also writes for the following:

Loose Ends

http://www.loose-ends.net/

Women of the West

http://www.mkionwritenow.com

Discovering America

http://www.loose-ends.net/articleteaser.php?articleid=301

Serene Light

http://www.serenelight.org/may/toy.htm

http://www.serenelight.org/june/lydia1.htm

Alpine Outlaws: James Butler Hickok

http://www.alpineoutlaws.com/dead_mans_hand.html

Mary Crowley/History's Women

http://www.historyswomen.com/MaryCrowley.html

Latest Articles

Fur Trading Business Changing
In the fur trade, the Rocky Mountain Fur Company is in competition with the American Fur Company, Hudson's Bay, and smaller new companies.
Apr 16, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion
The Battle of Pierre’s Hole
Following the 1832 Mountain Man Rendezvous a battle breaks out between Mountain Men fur trappers and the Gros Ventres, a division of the Blackfeet Indians.
Apr 16, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion
Father Junipero Serra
Father Junipero Serra: Franciscan Missionary in California and major cause of the decline of California's Native American population.
Apr 13, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion
Bleeding Kansas
Prior to the official start of the Civil War, bloody battle break out in Kansas Territory between Free State and proslavery groups.
Apr 9, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion
Civil War Begins at Fort Sumter
Confederate Brigadier General Beauregard, in April of 1861, leads the attack on Fort Sumter, in Charleston, South Carolina harbor, signaling that the Civil War had begun.
Apr 6, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion
San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
An earthquake struck San Francisco, California on April 18, 1906. This major quake struck at 5:12 A.M. with a magnitude up to 8.3, lasting nearly one minute.
Apr 4, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion
Moses Austin
Moses Austin starts a colony in Spanish Missouri, then travels to Texas and obtains a Spanish land grant there.
Apr 2, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion
John Brown at Pottawatomie
Abolitionist John Brown, in 1856, led the mob that massacred five suspected pro-slavery men at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
Mar 30, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion
Mountain Man Rendezvous, 1832
The Mountain Man rendezvous of 1832 was held at Pierre's Hole. Hundreds of mountain men, trappers, Indians and fur company traders met to sell furs or trade for supplies.
Mar 27, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion
Slavery as an Issue for War
Roots of the American Civil War begin in 1619 when some Jamestown, Virginia residents buy twenty Africans.
Mar 20, 2007 - Mary Trotter Kion