{"id":27880,"date":"2016-04-19T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=27880"},"modified":"2016-04-05T17:55:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T22:55:09","slug":"girl-waits-with-gun-by-amy-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/girl-waits-with-gun-by-amy-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"girlwithgun\"<\/a>The year is 1914 and three sisters find themselves involved in an accident. \u00a0The sisters were driving in their buggy when a motor vehicle plowed into them. \u00a0Men came to the women’s aid and lifted the damaged buggy off of them. \u00a0The oldest woman, Constance Kopp, is outraged. \u00a0The driver, Henry Kaufman, is disrespectful but Constance informs him that she will be sending him a bill. \u00a0Miss Kopp makes Mr. Kaufman look quite ridiculous. \u00a0She is six feet tall and towers over this petty little man. \u00a0Her sister Norma warns Constance to drop the matter but she will do no such thing. \u00a0To Constance, it is the principle of the matter. \u00a0And so, she sends Henry Kaufman a bill.<\/p>\n

After receiving no response, Constance decides to go down to Mr. Kaufman’s silk dying factory. \u00a0Once she is there, she meets with Mr. Kaufman’s sister who is not at all surprised by the story. \u00a0Constance and Henry have another meeting. \u00a0At this time, he threatens the youngest sister, Fleurette. \u00a0Without thinking, Constance goes into a blind rage and finds herself smashing Henry Kaufman’s head against the wall. \u00a0Unfortunately, she did this in front of his low life friends.<\/p>\n

Constance realizes that she has made an enemy. \u00a0Bricks with threatening notes attached break through windows. \u00a0Cars drive past the farm house with men yelling for Fleurette. \u00a0Norma is upset with Constance for pursuing the matter. \u00a0Constance ends up confiding in the sheriff. \u00a0He posts deputies at her house and gives each woman a gun and teaches them how to shoot. \u00a0The sheriff instructs them on what to do in order to collect evidence. \u00a0Eventually Henry Kaufman slips up and the sheriff is able to arrest him.<\/p>\n

But there is more to the story. \u00a0Throughout the book, the reader is given clues to Constance’s past. \u00a0We learn why these women moved from Brooklyn, New York to live on a farm in New Jersey. \u00a0And there is the case of the missing baby that Constance solves. \u00a0Girl Waits With Gun<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is the story of a unique woman that stood up to a bully and protected her sisters. \u00a0And, Miss Constance Kopp was one of America’s first female deputy sheriffs. \u00a0This book is based off of true events. \u00a0You can find it in print<\/a> and audiobook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To learn more about Constance Kopp, visit the author’s\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The year is 1914 and three sisters find themselves involved in an accident. \u00a0The sisters were driving in their buggy when a motor vehicle plowed into them. \u00a0Men came to the women’s aid and lifted the damaged buggy off of them. \u00a0The oldest woman, Constance Kopp, is outraged. \u00a0The driver,[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,10],"tags":[616,3506,508],"class_list":["post-27880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-books","tag-historical-fiction","tag-women-sheriffs","tag-womens-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-7fG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27880"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27907,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27880\/revisions\/27907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}