"Minnie Guenther - Young Midwestern Woman Makes Her Home with the Wild Apaches" with Carol Sletten. Saturday March 11, from 12 pm to 1 pm in the Silver City Museum Annex at 302 W. Broadway.

Co-sponsored by the Fort Bayard Historic Preservation Society, this lecture is in support of Women's History Month.

Carol Sletten, the author of Three Strong Western Women, will discuss the involvement of the Church in Native American affairs, followed by a performance of Minnie Guenther from her point of view. At 20 years old, Minnie left her comfortable Wisconsin home to marry a missionary and head for the wilds of Arizona. She lived on the Fort Apache Reservation for 61 years.

Carol Sletten is a writer, illustrator and speaker whose work reflects her fascination with the history, landscapes and people of the American West. She is co-author and illustrator of the Arizona Centennial Legacy Project, Story of the American West - Legends of Arizona and author of Three Strong Western Women.

She recently received a DAR Women in the Arts Recognition Award, was a finalist in the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Contest, and was chosen be one of the twelve 2017 Petrified Forest National Park's Artists-In-Residence. Carol lives and works in a cabin surrounded by forest a mile from the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona's White Mountains.

The Silver City Museum creates opportunities for residents and visitors to explore, understand, and celebrate the rich and diverse cultural heritage of southwestern New Mexico by collecting, preserving, researching, and interpreting the region's unique history. For more information, please contact the museum at (575) 538-5921, education@silvercitymuseum.org, or go to the museum's website. www.silvercitymuseum.org.