Iron Women with Chris Enss

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July 20 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Chris Enss will be signing her book Iron Women and her newest release The Doctor Was A Woman.

Enss will be speaking on the women who influenced and helped build the railroads in the United States, including the first female physicians who worked as railroad surgeons. Doors open at 5:30pm for her presentation on her research and books.

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.

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2180 South Carson Street
Carson City, NV 89701 United States
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Phone: 775-687-6953