Through our new exhibit that opened under two weeks ago on the second floor in the mountain gallery, titled cowboys and culture. If you havent, i would strongly urge you to. It is just a fascinating collection, and im talking about a large collection of artifacts, art and other objects that illuminate the connection i wasnt aware of down through history, going back to the cattle days between the city of kansas city and amarillo, texas. It is so big, in fact, part of it spilled out into kirk hall down on the first hall. You may have seen the big saddle there and the big hall tree. It is a terrific exhibit. I would be remiss probably at this point before getting to michael if i didnt introduce ann dousy standing in the very back back there. She is our Library Art Exhibit director, and she has worked with michael. She is response for all of the great exhibits that you see in both of our galleries. She does a terrific job. Michael really is responsible for the most part for this exhibit be
By just using the records that we have on the second floor, our research core, the archives themselves, and then also a Research Library of 40,000 volumes on the American West. Human habitation in the plains would date from certainly in this part of the country, from well before the current era. Most anthropologists north American Indians as far back as 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, plains culture. What you will see in this exhibit here is much more recent, perhaps about 1700, but it is still precontact. We date the contact period from about in this part of the country anyway, from about the 1740s when there was a french expedition along the Missouri River by the varonde brothers and their father, about 1743. So the materials that you see here would date from before that period of time, and one object that i would point to in particular would be this buffalo effigy in this red tablet. This is catlonite. It is harvested or quarried in a strong vein of soft stone of this red variety up and
The National Battlefield park. He has published a number of articles and reviews on various history topics. One of his primary interests as chief historian and as superintendent at mannasas was leading the emphasis on expanding the interpretation of the civil war for assessment. Dr. Sutton is currently serving as a consultant to the American Battle monuments commission, assisting Commission Staff in developing interpretive programs to commemorate the centennial of world war i, and hes currently working on a book on world war i aimed at middle school children. Dr. Sutton has continued teaching, he teaches courses in the Johns Hopkins program on the Senior Adult Program on civil war in the american west. He will be the resident historian for viking Ocean Cruises as well. Dr. Sutton also has written a book on the civil war era in kansas published by sky horse publishing in august 2017, and he and his son lee are editing an autobiography written by his father and lees grandfather. With tha
History. The idea of the expedition was to encourage more American Travel up the Missouri River and more american trade with the american announced. The story of south dakota, theres some interesting tales, first of all when you come into south dakota, Sergeant Floyd had died, but the current city of sioux city, but when they got to now whats the current city of elpoint, south dakota, they elected patrick gasse as the mayor. Clark was elected in that situation. Highly unusual. Farther up the river, they saw spirit mound, where it was supposed to be inhabited by 18inch high devils. And they had to go see these devils. Once they got the top of spirit mound and what did they see but bison, acres and acres of bison. And these are men coming from the eastern United States who are used to trees and forests and hills and rocks and this open plain is like a farmers delight, as well as a hunters delight with al those buffalo. As they come up the river a little bit farther, george has been non,
By the Western Plains museum, and there we are told about the immigrants and American Indians who have called this region home. This is the Northern Plains referring to the many different ways that life on this part of the country has been recorded. Either through letters or diaries or journals or photographs or objects as well, by the many, many different varieties of ethnic cultures that have lived here. What we wanted to accomplish in emphasizing the materials that you see in this exhibit is that more information can be gathered by just using the records that we have on the second floor, our research core, the archives themselves, and then also a Research Library of 40,000 volumes on the american west. Human habitation in the plains would date from certainly in this part of the country, from well before the current era. Most anthropologists north American Indians as far back as 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, plains culture. What you will see in this exhibit here is much more recent, pe