Cathy’s humorous and informative
talks have been popular around the
country, including the National Archives,
the Library of Congress, the Nevada
Humanities Council, the Junto Society
and more.

Birds-On-Toast and Other Gold Rush Foods
The spirit of the western settlers, ranging
from hangtown Fry to “ragout de paririe
dog,” not to mention the ubiquitous
Standing Roast Grizzly, (dollar a plate.)

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Women of the West
Women's stories have been neglected part of western history–but no more. If the 800,000 women who traveled west before 1900, many left diaries, journals and photo-
graphs that reveal what it was like to be a
woman at the turn of the century.

Romance in the West
The story of love and romance in the American West involved brides so young they took their dolls to the altar and men so deserate they rode from house to house, calling out, "anyone in there to marry?"

The Hot Flash Cookbook
A humourous presenation on midlife health, the book was reviewed in over 200 newspapers, was roasted and used as comic fodder on the Jay Leno show, and discussed at length on Fox After Breakfast with Vicki Lawrence and Phyllis Diller–whose own menopause has lasted about 30 years and who had many interested comments concerning it.