Rhonda Fleming, shown here with her co-star Burt Lancaster, played “Laura Denbow,” a fanciful version of the subject of Frank Thurmond's historical novel “Lottie Deno”in the 1957 film “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.”
University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor and prolific writer Frank Thurmond's just published first novel "Lottie Deno: A Novel of the Civil War and the American Southwest" is a work of historical fiction set primarily in Reconstruction-era Texas.
