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SHERMAN, TEXAS—Randi Tanglen will be the guest lecturer at The Sherman Museum’s monthly Lunch Lecture series event on May 25 at 12:00noon. Tanglen, an assistant professor of English at Austin College, will speak on “Olive Oatman Fairchild: Intersections of Literature and History.” The event is free and open to all friends of the museum and interested parties. Attendees are encouraged to bring a brown bag lunch.
Tanglen said that because Olive Ann Oatman received the ritual tattoo markings of the Mohave people of California, she was one of the most famous Indian captives of the 1800s. She later married a successful rancher named John Fairchild and moved with him to Sherman in 1872. Tanglen will provide historical information on Olive Oatman Fairchild’s life, especially the 1857 publication of her captivity story, The Captivity of the Oatman Girls, as well as her experiences as a resident of Sherman.
Tanglen has been a member of the Austin College faculty since 2008. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Rocky Mountain College, a liberal arts college in Montana, before completing her master’s degree at the University of Montana and her doctoral degree at the University of Arizona.
The Sherman Museum, located at 301 South Walnut Street, is devoted to collecting, preserving, and interpreting objects of historical significance to Grayson County and the greater north Texas region. The museum, previously known as The Red River Historical Museum, underwent a name change in March 2011.
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