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Spring 2027 Author’s Luncheon

January 20, 2027

Please join The Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries at our Spring 2027 Author’s Luncheon.

Megan Kate Nelson is a historian, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the author of five books. Before leaving academia to write full-time in 2014, Megan taught U.S. history and American Studies at Texas Tech University, Cal State Fullerton, Harvard, and Brown. She earned her BA magna cum laude in History and Literature from Harvard University and her PhD in American Studies from the University of Iowa.

Born and raised in Colorado, Megan now lives in Boston with her husband and two cats.

The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier

A book of two richly detailed, interwoven stories. The first story reveals the lives of women and men — Indigenous peoples, Black Americans, Mexican Americans, and Canadian and Asian immigrants — making their way in the American West of the 19th century. The second story tells of the efforts of many Americans to erase these Westerners from American history.

Available at: DesertView Library andSaddleBrooke One Libraries

Other books available by Megan Kate Nelson at the DesertView Library:

The Three-cornered war: the Union, the Confederacy and Native Peoples in the Fight for the WestSaving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America