Okay. So heres our exploration of progressive era responses to the what it was understood to be the end of the frontier and if we have time well get to a massive adventure in applied history where i got to go to Harney County where the National Wildlife refuge was taken over by the bundy brothers so i get ill have a presentation on that if time permits because that was probably really the most intense experience on the ground of being in the place. Community still very divided by that takeover. I hope i can get to that, as well. So, first a guessing game. This is somebody who said a lot of things that i think people have forgotten. Including me. Including me. Ive forgotten some of the things. So heres the question i guess for the sake of wider audience. Ill read it. The Public Domain has been a force of profound importance in the nationalization and development of the government. And the person who said that is probably not someone you would have expected to have said that because, in
That was probably the most intense experience on the ground of being in the community, still very divided over that. I hope i can get to that as well. First a guessing game. This is somebody who said a lot of things that i think people have forgotten, including me. So who said that . Isnt it fun to be told that youre going to be tricked . Come on, suckers. Come on. Essentially. It is in your reading. You did. I said that . No. No. But in fact, it is so much something i could have said because the public lands are theyre the core of the way the federal government grows. Thats one of those bedrock reasons for saying the west and the westward expansion is key to the growth of the power of the federal government. So i felt that. [ inaudible ] no. Though he would turner . Yes, yes, yes. I was going to say ive sat at his desk. Matt got it. Frederick Jackson Turner said that. I am he is totally benefited from you folks being here because i reread the significance of the frontier of American H
Harney county where the National Wildlife refuge was taken over by the bundy brothers so i get ill have a presentation on that if time permits because that was probably really the most intense experience on the ground of being in the place. Community still very divided by that takeover. I hope i can get to that, as well. So, first a guessing game. This is somebody who said a lot of things that i think people have forgotten. Including me. Including me. Ive forgotten some of the things. So heres the question i guess for the sake of wider audience. Ill read it. The Public Domain has been a force of profound importance in the nationalization and development of the government. And the person who said that is probably not someone you would have expected to have said that because, in fact, it is somebody who said a lot of things and then he didnt he or she didnt end up getting credit for that. So who said that . Isnt it fun to be told that youre going to be tricked . Come on, suckers. Come on
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[laughter] chris thank you for being here. The book is congressman lincoln the making of americas greatest president. What do i mean by greatest president . I mean most significant. At the end of the day, it was Abraham Lincoln to engage the south any civil war in order to preserve the union. It is Abraham Lincoln that result the slavery issue that had vexed the statesman back to the founding. And this story, why congressman lincoln . There are 16,000 books written about Abraham Lincoln. If you go to fords theatre in washington dc, which is the final scene of the extraordinary story, you will see half that number piled to the ceiling. Abouten i say books Abraham Lincoln, i do not mean about mary todd or the civil war , i mean about him. Books about his time in congress, one of three political jobs he ever had. The only other job he had in the federal government, besides president. There have only been three of them written and this is the third. The last one was written before i was bo