Iron in Her Hands: The Ballad of Mabel Colter

By Aussprey Dixon

In 1887 Texas, nineteen-year-old Mabel Colter, daughter of a blacksmith, walked home at dusk through a dusty cattle town.
When Harlan Pike - a hard-drinking cowboy with a reputation for charm in daylight and cruelty in shadows - cornered her in an alley, Mabel fought back. In the struggle, his own pistol went off.

The town saw not self-defense but a girl with blood on her hands.

Sentenced to fourteen years in the stone-gray walls of Redstone Prison, Mabel Colter became more than a convict. She became a whispered legend - the girl who fought back when the law wouldn't.

Now, at thirty-three, she steps into freedom as a woman forged by iron and dust. But the world still remembers her as the girl who shot Harlan Pike - and some haven't forgiven her for surviving.

Iron in Her Hands is a riveting historical Western drama for readers who love survival stories, women who refuse to break, and the dusty legends of the American frontier.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GJ5K97X1
• ISBN13: 9798245085999
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"