Iron Women with Chris Enss
Schedule
Sat Jul 20 2024 at 05:30 pm
UTC-07:00Location
2180 S Carson St, Carson City, NV, United States, Nevada 89701 | Carson City, NV
Doors open at 5:30pm for her presentation on her research and books. Speaking on the women who influenced and helped build the American railroad including those first female physicians who worked as railroad surgeons.
Chris Enss is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing about women of the Old West for more than thirty years. She has penned more than fifty published books on the subject. Her work has been honored with nine Will Rogers Medallion Awards, two Elmer Kelton Book Awards, an Oklahoma Center for the Book Award, three Foreword Review Magazine Book Awards, the Laura Downing Journalism Award, and a Willa Cather Award from Women Writing the West for scholarly nonfiction. Enss’s most recent works are The Doctor Was A Woman: Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier, An Open Secret: The Story of Deadwood’s Most Notorious Bordellos, and Along Came a Cowgirl: Daring and Iconic Cowgirls of Rodeos and Wild West Shows.
Where is it happening?
2180 S Carson St, Carson City, NV, United States, Nevada 89701Event Location & Nearby Stays: