I Ain’t Afraid: The World of Lulu Bell Parr, Wild West Cowgirl book signing with author Diane Helentjaris
April 10, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.
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On Thursday, April 10, from 6 to 8 p.m., author Diane Helentjaris will give a presentation entitled “Lulu Bell Parr’s Ride into Oklahoma History,” based on the subject of her book I Ain’t Afraid: The World of Lulu Bell Parr, Wild West Cowgirl (2024).
The book focuses on the life and adventures of Lulu Bell Parr, the once-famous and later-forgotten “Queen of the Cowgirls.”
In 1903, Lulu Bell Parr ran away from the doldrums of life as a divorced, uneducated, and poor Midwesterner to join up with Pawnee Bill’s Wild West Show. Beautiful and strong, she became an outstanding horsewoman, toured the world, and “many times…flirted with death.”
About Diane Helentjaris
Diane Helentjaris’s historical novel The Indenture of Ivy O’Neill is the 2024 winner of the Maryland Writers’ Association Novel Competition in the category of romance and historical novels. Helentjaris, raised in Ohio, now makes her home in Virginia.
