All right . Learn more about the history of u. S. Automobiles sunday at 6 00 p. M. And then a copy of eastern and 10 00 p. M. Eastern. You are the cspan cities tour is exploring the american story. Our spectrumof cable partners, we travel to sheridan, wyoming. Coming up in the next hour we will hear from local historians and experts. Range andits open cowboy culture, in a moment the history of rodeo in sheridan. Fort minutes we will visit kearny. Sheridanwill visit the county museum to hear about the impact coal mining had on the area. We begin with the history of rodeo. [indiscernible] no other place to be the second week in weekend of july than here in wyoming. We invite you all. Oh, say, can you see, by the dawns early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . I tell you, this week is the biggest week in sheridan economically. Ago sheridan was dead as a doornail. There was nothing going on. Citizens decided we needed to provide someto Economic Opportunity and
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In new york city and the southern festival of books in nashville. For more information and to watch our previous festival coverage, click the book fairs tab on our website, booktv. Org. The cspan cities tour is on the road exploring the american story. Bozeman in many ways in Galveston County is a lamp of the way montanas changing. It is one of the fastest month metropolitan areas in terms of growth in the country. We take you to bozeman montana situated in the other part of the state 90 miles from Yellowstone National park drawing many tourists to the city. Over the next hour and 15 minutes we will hear from local authors about the areas history, politics and literary landscape. We begin with a visit to Montana State university and a look inside the eyethan doig collection. Ivan is a montana author, wellknown montana author of 15 memoirs and novels. He was raised here in montana and spent his adult life in seattle but continued to come back to montana and wrote many books beloved mike
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At cspan. Org citiestour. Cspans cities tour is exploring the american story as we take book tv and American History tv on the road. Every first and third weekend of the month, we bring you the history and literary life of a different that he as we visit Historic Sites and talk to local authors. With support from our spectrum cable partners, this weekend we traveled to bozeman, montana. Situated in the southern part of the state, bozeman sits 90 miles from Yellowstone National park, drawing many tourists to the city. Over the next hour, we will learn about the history of the bozeman and the surrounding region. When i first moved to bozeman, there were so many story, story streets, story distributing, story hills, but there was not a lot written on him. There was a historian who once said to me you know, bozeman is misnamed. He said it ought to be story. Orstory bill storyville, story town. Personally, i think bozeman has a better ring to it than any of those other options. They remaine