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Portrait of MacLane, ca. 1902.

 

I, Mary MacLane, cover, ca. 1917.

MacLane used her royalties to travel to the East Coast, continuing to attract attention before settling in Boston and writing her second book, My Friend Annabel Lee, which was published in 1903. In 1908 MacLane returned to Butte.  Her last book, I, Mary MacLane was published in 1917 to diminished attention but it earned her a contract with a Chicago film studio to write and star in “Men Who Have Made Love to Me,” a film adaptation of one of her feature stories. MacLane died alone in a Chicago hotel room in August, 1929.