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Kate Boyles Bingham
1876–1959
Best known for vivid frontier novels written with her brother, this South Dakota–connected writer helped turn prairie settlement and Badlands life into popular early-20th-century fiction. Her stories often center on resilient women and the social worlds of the American West.
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Langford of the Three Bars
by Kate Boyles Bingham, Virgil D. (Virgil Dillin) Boyles
About the author
Born in 1876, Kate Boyles Bingham was an American writer who collaborated closely with her brother, Virgil Dillin Boyles. Reference works and library records connect her with several novels, including Langford of the Three Bars, The Homesteaders, The Hoosier Volunteer, and A Daughter of the Badlands.
Scholarly writing about her work places her in the literary history of South Dakota, where she and her brother drew on frontier settlement, ranching country, and relations between Native and white communities as material for fiction. Critics have noted that her western novels gave unusual attention to women characters, especially pioneer heroines with independence and grit.
She died in 1959. A clear portrait image could not be confirmed from the sources reviewed, so no profile image is included.