The cspan cities tour travels the country exploring the american story as we c takec booktv and American History tv on the road with the support of local Cable Television provider we visited 24 cities in the last year and over the next two hours we will looknd at highlights frm some of these stops we began our special feature in milwaukee. So this is a photograph of the lynching that occurred august 7, 1930 in marion, indiana. James cameron to a 16 was supposed be the third person hanging from the tree but he survived the lynching. His friends, abe and tommy, were killed that day by a mob estimate between ten ten and 10 angry whites. Often misidentified as 1000 lynching. It it was a northcentral indiana when the lynching took place. So y we ended up writing a book that he called a time of he actually started to write those when he was in jail awaiting his trial and then when he is finally convicted and sent to prison he finished writing the book. James cameron was born in wisconsin in
The country exploring the american story as we take book to be an American History tv im the road. With the support of the local Cable Television provider, we visited only four cities in the last year. And over the next two hours, we will look and highlight from some of the stops. We begin our special feature in milwaukee. So this is the photograph of the lynching that occurred im august 7th, 1930, near indiana. James cameron was 16 at the time, was supposed to be the third person hanging from the tree. But he miraculously survived the lynching. His two friends abe and tommy, it was like 18 and 19 years old, they were killed that day. By mob. Between ten and 50000 angry white people. This was actually in North Central indiana. Join lynching took place. So you end up writing the book they called the time of the survivor story memoir of the memories of the surviving lynching. Actually started his life that when he was in jail. I was a mistrial that he was finally convicted and sentenced.
Sheridan, wyoming. For eight years, we have traveled to bring Historic Sites to our viewers. You can watch more at s an. Org cittie citiestour. Rg next hour, wehe will hear from local historians and experts about this city situated along the Big Horn Mountain range. Known for its cowboy culture. In about 15 minutes, we will hear about the conflict between the u. S. Army am American Indian tribes and a little later, we will hear about the impact paul mining had on the area. Ofbegin with the history [indiscernible] all right. One, two, three. The nationals final rodeo. Theres no place better to be the second week in july than sheridan, wyoming. We put on a world class event and we just love to invite you all to come to sheridan. O say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hail by the twilights last gleaming i tell you what, this week is the biggest week in sheridan. Economically and entertainmentwise. Its good because 89 years ago, sheridan was dead as a door nail. Ther
Visits at cspan. Org citiestour. All right. One, two, three. The nationals final rodeo. Theres no place better to be the second week in july than sheridan, wyoming. We put on a world class event and we just love to invite you all to come to sheridan. O say can you see y the dawns early light what so proudly we hail by the twilights last gleaming i tell you what, this week is the biggest week in sheridan. Economically and entertainmentwise. Its good because 89 years ago, sheridan was dead as a doer nail. There was nothing going on. So door nail. There was nothing going on. So some citizens decided, we need to have a rodeo to provide some Economic Opportunity and entertainment and that was their charter and it still is. So here we are 89 years later. Were still doing the same thing and we hope the Founding Fathers will be proud of that. In 1928 and 1929, a financier family named j. P. Morgue be, they bought the historic morgan, they bought the historic p. K. Ranch outside of town. For ye