Natalie Appleton
March 12th, 2025
The story of Belle Jane, a woman who ran one of Canada’s largest cattle thieving gangs in the 1920s, is told in I Want to Die in My Boots (TouchWood $26) by Natalie Appleton. Part fiction, part non-fiction, Appleton chronicles Belle Jane’s life as she leaves Montana for a third husband and the ranch she’d always wanted. Settling in Saskatchewan, Belle Jane would marry twice more and spend her last years in Penticton, “reading tarot cards for strangers.” Appleton’s travel memoir, I Have Something to Tell You (Ravenscrag, 2018) followed the publication of an essay in The New York Times. She also won Room’s Creative Non-Fiction Contest. 9781990071270
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