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Mary K. (Mary Katherine) Maule
b. 1861
A journalist-turned-novelist with strong ties to Nebraska and Denver, she wrote spirited fiction shaped by frontier life and the American West. Her best-known novel, A Prairie-Schooner Princess, helped preserve the drama and texture of pioneer experience for later readers.
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A Prairie-Schooner Princess
by Mary K. (Mary Katherine) Maule
About the author
Mary Katherine Maule, sometimes listed as Mary K. Maule or Mary Katherine Finigan Maule, was an American journalist and author active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Reliable catalog and library sources connect her with A Prairie-Schooner Princess (1920), and reference sources describe her as a journalist who worked for the Colorado Times in Denver and also wrote juvenile fiction.
A Nebraska authors reference notes that she was born in Pekin, Illinois, and lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, before leaving for Denver around 1890 because of health problems. The same source links her life closely to western settings and themes, which fits the frontier and prairie subjects of her fiction.
Her known books include For Mamsie's Sake (1893), The Little Knight of the X Bar B (1910), A Prairie-Schooner Princess (1920), God's Anointed (1921), and The Byrne Girls, How They Worked and Won (1921). Some records give her birth year as 1861, while at least one regional reference gives 1864, so the exact year is not fully consistent across available sources.