Author Visit with Laura Vogt

Join Oklahoma author, Laura Vogt, to discuss her new historical fiction novel, In the Great Quiet. She will be in conversation with a librarian, talking about writing and her family story, as well answering audience questions. Books will be available for purchase with a book signing for interested parties.

In the Great Quiet is also the Bethany Library Book Club choice for May. Join our event on Tuesday, May 26 at 11am to share your thoughts in a discussion group. 

About In the Great Quiet 

A pioneer unwaveringly endures the Oklahoma frontier in an epic adventure about a woman haunted by secrets and searching for home.

A cannon booms at high noon, and the race begins in the Oklahoma land rush of 1893.

Amid the crowd is Minnie Hoopes. Tenacious and fiercely independent, she is determined to endure the brutal frontier and create a life of her own. Guarding her solitude, she distances herself from bordering homesteaders and finds peace under the starry nights of the vast frontier. But this is outlaw country, and Minnie soon has the blood of two gunfighters on her hands. After a renegade outlaw named Stot discovers her secrets, she forms an unlikely friendship with him. With each passing season, Minnie’s past grows more haunting and threatens the future she has risked everything to build. Minnie raced into the Wild West alone, but her grandest journey in the frontier wilderness is one she never saw coming.

Based on the true story of the author’s great-great-grandparents, this sweeping and transportive survival story explores a woman’s connection with the land, her reconciliation with the past, and her elemental search for home against all odds.