Great Women of the Frontier

 

Laurette Willis visited Wilson to share her one-woman show. We learned about three women who helped shape Oklahoma's history. Thank you Oklahoma Arts Council and the Bartlesville Foundation for providing the funding for this presentation!

 

               

Willis as Rosana Chouteau,             Willis as Carrie Bushyhead, the        Willis as Nellie O'Keefe, an Irish

a schoolteacher on the frontier.        first woman clan chief of the              settler who participated in the Land Run.

                                                         Osage tribe.

 

Laurette Willis's website -  http://www.laurettewillis.com/

Oklahoma Arts Council's website - http://www.state.ok.us/~arts/