Refers 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 an throw pothropologists n 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 wa
Have everybody here tonight. Its a great crowd and i it feels like just kind of a festive light atmosphere and im glad. Weve got a great presentation for you tonight. My name is steve weberg, i work in the Public Affairs department here at the library and its going to be my honor here to introduce a guy ive gotten to know and really come to admire a lot here in the past few months working with him. Some of you may already have been through our new exhibit open just under two weeks ago on the second floor in the mountain gallery called cowboys and culture. If you havent, i would strongly urge you to. Its just a fascinating collection, and im talking about a large collection, of artifacts, art and other objects that illuminate the connection that i wasnt aware of down through history going back to the cattle days between city of kansas city and amarillo, texas. Its so big, in fact, part of it spilled out into kirk hall down in the first floor, you may have seen the big saddle there and t
Latest history news. Our cspan cities tour takes American History tv on road to feature the history of cities across america. Heres a recent program. In the years before the arrival of the trans continental railroad, tacoma was not d dissimilar from the other communities around puget sound and the northwest. The population was predominantly native american. By the end of the 19th century coming over the oregon trail and then some by sea, small little villages really of american, of europeans, had arrived. But mostly along the shoreline and that was because the primary purpose here for people that were settling was cutting timber and milling timber that was then sent down to san francisco. So that prompted a lot of entrepreneurs and small investors and adventurers to come up and begin to build cities and so seattle, bellingham, townsend, olympia, all were small, smallish communities of 50 to a few hundred people, really. Pride prior to the coming of t trans continental. But at the concl
[ inaudible conversations ] house and Senate Republican leaders are gathering for an enrollment ceremony for the tax reform bill. Paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell officially signed that legislation and sent it to the white house for President Trumps signature. [ applause ]. Congratulations. Congratulations. [ inaudible conversations ] well, good morning. What a good morning this is. A fantastic day, christmas coming early for the American People. The house and the Senate Working together, putting aside all differences with one clear objective, making sure the American People are heard. Making sure that Small Businesses have an opportunity to grow. We have seen a tremendous victory through this process. And it is because of committed leaders behind me entrusted with the confidence of their voters to bring forth a tremendous victory. I am thankful that we are led in the senate by leader mcconnell, whos done a fabulous job of bringing 52 cats all working in Different Directions together for
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