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Kim Wickens

Kim Wickens

Award-winning author of Lexington (2023 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award), former criminal defense attorney who practiced for 20 years in New Mexico, and equestrian based in Lexington, Kentucky.

Jun 4, 2026

5:25
Yeah.
5:26
Yeah.
5:26
No book had been written.
5:27
So it was wild.
5:28
So, I mean, it just, it just kind of went from one thing to another.
5:33
And then I was taking my vacations because I was a sole practitioner as a lawyer and I was taking my vacation time and, you know, in Albuquerque and coming to Keeneland library and, and to new orleans and to saratoga and to west point and doing all the research because i believe that it should be primary source material if you could find it yeah that's that's the best i love that you're doing it the right way right you know because i mean first of all if you're if you're gonna do it you you're going back into history and you're looking at history i mean To me, it's just there's something so grand about like holding history, you know, like looking at the actual source and holding in your hands and filling it.
6:18
I mean, you could fill history, you know.

6 MINS LATER

12:22
No one does this.

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