GIRL WAITS WITH GUN, novel based on the true story of a female deputy sheriff in 1914
" I got a revolver to protect us," said Miss Constance, "and I soon had use for it." --New York Times, June 3, 1915 Amy Stewart's novel, GIRL WAITS WITH GUN, rings true. She includes real newspaper articles that give the Kopp sisters' story the authenticity of an era fairly forgotten in 2015. In 1914 Constance Kopp turned thirty-five on an isolated farm with her sister Norma, also a spinster, and 16-year old Fleurette. It was eccentric that the three sisters and their mother chose to live on this farm, rather than town, where a school and other cultural advantag...