The west posted something. Western historian paul hutton delivered the keynote address. He described how william cody became a symbol of the frontier and influenced american perception of western culture. This is just over an hour. Welcome, everyone, to the final event of what has been a terrific three days. You know, when you start to plan these things, and you think we will have this person and that person and do all this stuff. There was this moment when we started to put the program on paper and said we have 36 different speakers on this thing. It exceeded our expectations certainly. So thank you to everyone for all the terrific presentations. Thanks very much. [applause] and this wont be the last you will have heard from the gathered scholars. We are going to compile an edit a new volume in our women f. Cody series of the American West with the university of oklahoma press. All of the presenters are invited, as they know, to submit their work for consideration for this volume. The
He is the author of the 2016 book the lives of Frederick Douglass, halloween todays presentation will be signing copies of the book. Please welcome Professor Robert levine. [applause] thank you for the introduction tom, and my thanks to tom for organizing the event. It is a real honor to be here. My guess is you would rather hear an actor over an academic, so i will be relatively brief, five minutes. As a lot of you know, frederick born into slavery in 1818 on the Eastern Shore of maryland. For the first 20 years of his life, he was a slave moving back and forth between the Eastern Shore and baltimore. He escaped from slavery in 1838 taking a train him baltimore while dressed as a sailor and eventually made his way to new bedford, massachusetts. He worked in the shipyards there and as a minister staying relatively quiet about his antislavery views. In part because he was a fugitive slave and was afraid of being remanded back into slavery, but in 1841 he spoke out against slavery at in
Up next from a centennial symposium held at the Buffalo Bill Center in wyoming, historians talk about how he has been interpreted in museums, his relationship with the tribes that performed with him in europe, and his art collection. This is 90 minutes. It is a pleasure to introduce our first session. The group of scholars are well respected and wellknown. They dont need much of an introduction. Their names appear on their own publications. About the history of the American West and the ability of acknowledgments, more than likely you will run across these three names. He is a resident scholar where he lives in cody because he is our go to guy where we have questions about buffalo bill. Sometime for two is the opposition here. We get along very well. We collaborate with one another. We noticed a few mistakes that the directoror him of the Buffalo Bill Center in the west. And learned all about art thel consider Buffalo Bills life and legacy in the past, as well as touching on his histor
And sympathetic to them. First, i thought it was unique. I thought that was a prevailing point of view on the part of most of the army high command. I found that remarkable that we have empathy, empathy for the indians and circumstances and so that led me in to indian wars. The tiet sl not a quote. Its from my own imagination but derives from, you will find various combinations ofly ricks in indian songs of the period that we use for earth, mother earth, sad, weeping and depicting their situation in the west. Your sources, you began your study as the eyewitness to the indian wars. The book gives a balance view, maybe the first to give such a balance view of rights of indians. What were most valuable to you in researching this book. A particular value, i will speak principally of the indian side because the white sources are more apparent, army, dairies, reports, letters, in the indian side, there were a number of stenographers, professional and otherwise who took testimony from indian
And sympathetic to them. First, i thought it was unique. I thought that was a prevailing point of view on the part of most of the army high command. I found that remarkable that we have empathy, empathy for the indians and circumstances and so that led me in to indian wars. The tiet sl not a quote. Its from my own imagination but derives from, you will find various combinations ofly ricks in indian songs of the period that we use for earth, mother earth, sad, weeping and depicting their situation in the west. Your sources, you began your study as the eyewitness to the indian wars. The book gives a balance view, maybe the first to give such a balance view of rights of indians. What were most valuable to you in researching this book. A particular value, i will speak principally of the indian side because the white sources are more apparent, army, dairies, reports, letters, in the indian side, there were a number of stenographers, professional and otherwise who took testimony from indian