Eminent Oregonians, authored by EO Media Group CEO Steve Forrester, Jane Kirkpatrick and R. Gregory Nokes, will be one of the books available at Saturday's book-signing event at Roundabout Books.

The Deschutes County Historical Society will host a live virtual discussion of the new book “Eminent Oregonians” on Tuesday evening.

The live event will feature authors R. Gregory Nokes, Jane Kirkpatrick and Steve Forrester — CEO of EO Media Group, parent company of The Bulletin — in conversation with Bulletin Editor Gerry O’Brien and Kelly Cannon-Miller, director of the Deschutes Historical Museum.

Bend-based historical novelist Kirkpatrick will describe her chapter about Oregon suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway, who wrote several novels and was among a handful of women worldwide who founded a newspaper, in her case The New Northwest.

Former newspaper publisher and columnist Forrester will present Richard Neuberger, a writer and politician of the first half of the 20th century.

Historian Nokes will discuss Jesse Applegate, who opposed slavery in the Oregon Constitutional Convention. Applegate was a trailblazer in the literal sense, creating the Applegate Trail.

The presentation starts at 5:45 p.m. at youtube.com/bendbulletin, starting with a brief look at the upcoming pictorial history book “Hello Bend!” which chronicles Central Oregon life from the 1950s to 2000.