The Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Carnegie Library will host a Lunch and Learn presentation in person with author Chris Enss on Thursday, May 8, at noon. The event will also be available to watch on BigMarker. Register to join the Lunch and Learn with Author Chris Enss virtually.

During the event, Enss will discuss Bill and Zoe Tilghman. Bill Tilghman became known as one of Oklahoma’s “Three Guardsmen” — a name given to three men known for pursuing criminals in Oklahoma. Zoe Tilghman wrote her husband’s biography after he was shot and killed by a drunken prohibition agent. Enss will also focus on Gordon William “Pawnee Bill” Lillie and his wife, May Lillie. Pawnee Bill is a legendary Wild West showman who joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in 1883. Pawnee Bill eventually created his own show. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required.

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, two Laura Downing Journalism Awards, 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 Meet the Kellys: The True Story of Machine Gun Kelly and His Moll Kathryn Thorne from Penguin Random House.