Best-selling author and screenwriter Chris Enss—born and raised in Norborne, Missouri—specializes in stories of the men and women who shaped the history and mythology of the American West, a passion she shares with fellow award-winning writers Bill Markley, Monty McCord, and Sherry Monahan.

Led by Enss, the four writers discuss their latest works and share their stories of the Old West on the first stop of their Most Intrepid Western Authors Posse tour of the Midwest.

Now a resident of Grass Valley, California, Enss has explored the lives of such well-known figures as Buffalo Bill Cody and Gen. George Armstrong Custer (along with the latter’s wife and fierce advocate, Elizabeth Bacon Custer). Notable, too, are Enss' accounts of the ordinary men and women who moved west as schoolmarms, gold miners, madams, and mail-order brides.