OLLI's Next Brown Bag Lecture

is Happening Next Friday on Zoom!

Friday, November, 17th 2023 at 12pm (Noon)

BROWN BAG LECTURE SERIES TOPIC:

"Women of the Gold Rush"

Featuring...

New York Times Best-Selling Author,

Chris Enss

with moderator: Terry McAteer

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About the author

Chris Enss is a New York Times best selling author who has been writing about women of the Old West for more than twenty years. She has penned more than forty published books on the subject. Her work has been honored with five Will Rogers Medallion Awards, an Elmer Kelton Book Award, an Oklahoma Center for the Book Award, three Foreword Review Magazine Book Awards, and two Western Writers of America Spur Finalist Awards.

Enss’s most recent works are According to Kate: The Legendary Life of Big Nose Kate Elder, Love of Doc Holliday, No Place for a Woman: The Fight for Suffrage in the Wild West, Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad, and The Lady and the Mountain Man: Isabella Bird, Mountain Man Jim Nugent, and their Unlikely Friendship, The Widowed Ones: Beyond the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and Along Came a Cowgirl: Daring and Iconic Cowgirls of Rodeos and Wild West Shows.

Enss is also the executive director of the Will Rogers Medallion Award.