Julia Bricklin is the author of the only biography of female sharpshooter Lillian Frances Smith (University of Oklahoma Press, April 2017) and of trailblazing reporter Nell Campbell, aka "Polly Pry" (TwoDot Books, September 2018). She has authored a dozen articles in well-respected commercial and academic journals, such as Civil War Times, Financial History, Wild West, True West and California History.