Is your unfiltered view of government. So you can make up your own mind. Brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. To becer next, a book exclusive, our cities to visits bozeman montana to learn more about its unique history and literary life. For eight years now, we have traveled to u. S. Cities, bringing the books in to our viewers. You can watch more at our visits on cspan. Org cities tour. Ivan doig is on montana author of 16 memoirs and novels. He was raised here in montana, spent his adult life in seattle but continued to come back to montana and wrote many books that are beloved, like this house in the sky, English Creek, dancing at the rascal fare, many others that are highly, highly regarded by people around the world. The collection is big. And i would like to introduce the dean of the library, kenny are ledge, who was instrumental in getting this collection. Sure. Away and are my associate and i traveled out to visit with carol doig at her invita
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
Street, story motors, 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. It ought to be story. Or storyville, or story town. Personally, i think bozeman has a better ring to it than any of those other options. So it remained bozeman. Nelsons curious about story since his name was plastered all over the place here. I just wanted i doubt more about it. There has not i just wanted to find out more about it. There has not been a fulllength biography about it, so over the years, i put it together. Nelson story was one of the more successful western capitalists in the history of the American West. If you take a step back and try and name others, you come up with Leland Stanford in california. Im sure that name rings a bell area you would have John Creighton from nebraska. John e live from northern colorado, and all of those people were very good. They started the most part and goldmining. After ma
Over the next hour and 15 minutes, well 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 collection. A well known antenna author, 16 memoirs and novels, he was raised here in montana. At her invitation and possibly a little bit about what we can do if she decided to deposit the collection with us and came back and wrote a proposal and a key feature of our proposal was that we said we would digitize the entire collection in less than a year so because digitize the entire thing is available on the internet for anyone in the world to see. Primarily we have documents. We have a lot of sound recordings and a lot of photographs, diary entries, obviously many books manuscripts for some books we have as many as seven manuscript versions so a lot that goes to the writers process colin medical records, all of that. He loves manual typewriters. We have many photographs of him in the archives a
By the railroad. Today were going to have two perspectives, one on the Chinese Railroad workers and another on native americans. Please hold your audience questions. Were going to have our two speakers on this topic give their presentations, and then were going to sit down and have a little chat in front of you here on the chairs. Then we will have opportunity for the audience to raise questions. So to start out our program, were going to talk about the Chinese Railroad workers, and our presenter is hilton obenzinger. He has been a lecturer at Stanford University in american studies and english and associate director for honors and advanced writing. He received his doctorate from the modern thought in Literature Program at stanford. Hes a critic, a poet, a novelist, a historian, and the recipient of the american book award. Hilton is the author of american palestinian, melville twain and the holy land mania, cannibal elliott and the lost histories of San Francisco, new york on fire. Hi