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On Saturday, February 8, at 1:30 p.m., the Oklahoma Territorial Museum will host an author talk with Connie Cronley. Copies of her book A Life on Fire: Oklahoma’s Kate Barnard (2021) will be available for purchase in the museum store at the event.About the Author
Cronley is the author of A Life on Fire: Oklahoma’s Kate Barnard, which the Oklahoma Historical Society named the best history book of 2021. Born in Nowata and currently residing in Tulsa, Cronley is an Oklahoma Native and enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation. She has won a lifetime achievement award from the Tulsa chapter of American Women of Communications and the Arts and Humanities Pinnacle Award from the Mayor’s Commission on the Status of Women and the YWCA.
A Life on Fire
Cronley’s award-winning book, A Life on Fire: Oklahoma’s Kate Barnard, is the biography of Barnard, a popular social reformer who dedicated herself to political and social reform on behalf of orphans, the mentally ill, the incarcerated, and the poor. She conducted inspections and reported egregious misconduct involving American Indian properties in Osage County—years before the FBI arrived to investigate the deaths of headright owners, as recounted in David Grann’s book, Killers of the Flower Moon
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
406 E Oklahoma Ave, Guthrie, OK, United States, Oklahoma 73044
