About Linda Wommack

A Colorado native, Linda Wommack, is a Colorado historian and historical consultant. She has written eleven books on Colorado history, including Murder in the Mile High City, Colorado's Landmark Hotels, From the Grave; Colorado's Pioneer Cemeteries, Our Ladies of the Tenderloin; Colorado's Legends in Lace, Colorado History for Kids, Colorado's Historic Mansions and Castles and Ann Bassett, Colorado's Cattle Queen and Haunted History of Cripple Creek and Teller County. She has also contributed to two anthologies concerning Western Americana.

Linda has been a contributing editor for True West Magazine since 1995. She has also been a staff writer, contributing a monthly article for Wild West Magazine, since 2004. She has written for The Tombstone Epitaph, the nation's oldest continuously published newspaper, since 1993. Linda also writes for several publications throughout her state.

Linda's research has been used in several documentary accounts for the national Wild West History Association, historical treatises of the Sand Creek Massacre, as well as critical historic aspects for the Lawman & Outlaw Museum in Cripple Creek, Colorado, which opened in 2007.

Linda feeds her passion for history with activities in many local, state, and national preservation projects, participating in historical venues, including speaking engagements, hosting tours, and is involved in historical reenactments across the state.

She is a member of both the state and national Cemetery Preservation Associations, the Gilpin County Historical Society, the national Wild West History Association and an honorary lifetime member of the Pikes Peak Heritage Society. Linda currently is on the Heritage Legacy Committee for Cherokee Castle. As a member of Women Writing the West, Linda has organized quarterly meetings for the Colorado members of WWW for the past twelve years, served on the 2014 WWW Convention Steering Committee. Linda currently serves on the board of WWW and is the DOWNING Journalism Award Chair.