From the May 10 issue of the Estes Park (Colo.) News:
The Estes Park Museum, 200 Fourth Street, will welcome Wyoming author Marcia Hensley [shown in photo above] for Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West, on Saturday, May 16 at 2 p.m. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. for this free program and book signing. Hensley’s book will be available for purchase before and after the program at the Museum Shop, where members of the Estes Park Museum Friends & Foundation, Inc. receive a 10% discount.
In her new book, Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West, author Marcia Hensley allows these women to tell their stories in their own words-through memoirs, letters, oral histories and articles of the time-of adventure, independence, risk, failure and freedom.
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A graduate of the University of Tulsa, Hensley taught English at Western Wyoming Community College where she directed the Western American Studies program in addition to teaching composition and Western Literature. Since retiring she has concentrated on writing and historical research.
In 2004, she won the Wyoming Arts Council’s Neltje Blanchan Memorial Award for writing inspired by nature. She has served on the Wyoming Council for the Humanities Speaker’s Bureau.
Along with a group of community volunteers, she is compiling an anthology of stories about Eden Valley, Wyoming, to commemorate the valley’s centennial. Her work has been published in two anthologies of western writing as well as the syndicated newspaper column Writers on the Range.
