Author, John Clayton on campus tomorrow 3/15/11

Author presents Caroline Lockhart, novelist, journalist, homesteader, and founder of the Cody rodeo

Montana author John Clayton discusses his book on the life of Cody’s Caroline Lockhart, a best-selling novelist, newspaper publisher and founder of the Cody rodeo Tuesday, March 15 at 3:30 p.m. in the Little Theatre.

Refreshments will be served. This event is sponsored by the CWC Library and the Wyoming Humanities Council. It is free and open to the public.

Clayton, a Red Lodge, Mont., resident who regularly writes for Montana Magazine and the Montana Quarterly, is the author of “The Cowboy Girl,” a narrative biography of Lockhart, who moved to the newly-founded town of Cody in 1904.

The author speaks of Lockhart’s career in Cody, a place where she wrote seven novels, including three that were made into films; and her years as editor and publisher of the Cody Enterprise.

Clayton’s presentation “Happily Ever Aftering on a 1920s Cattle Ranch,” discusses Lockhart’s move to a homestead in Montana where she tried to enact in real life the “happily ever after” experiences she described in her Western fiction.

Clayton’s book, “The Cowboy Girl”, is available in the library for check out!