Legislation finally through congress, the cartoon on the screen behind me appeared in the denver post. It shows e nos mills shaking hands with goddess colorado who is saying, enos, im proud of you. Looking on from the background, Two Mountains join in. Enos, im proud of you, says one. The other replies, i always knew you were all right. Further compliments followed and within a matter of months, enos mills was being hailed as the father of Rocky Mountain National Park, a title that mills himself would soon appropriate in his own writings. That title has followed mills from his time to our own. To cite the most obvious public example, that title graces the pedestal of the bronze life size statue of mills and his Border Collie scotch that since 2003 has stood in the corner of bond park in downtown estes park. An inscription reads enos a. Mills, the father of Rocky Mountain National Park. Homesteader, nature guide, naturalist, writer, lecture you are, photographer, and citizen of nature.
It shows e nos mills shaking hands with goddess colorado who is saying, enos, im proud of you. Looking on from the background, Two Mountains join in. Enos, im proud of you, says one. The other replies, i always knew you were all right. Further compliments followed and within a matter of months, enos mills was being hailed as the father of Rocky Mountain National Park, a title that mills himself would soon appropriate in his own writings. That title has followed mills from his time to our own. To cite the most obvious public example, that title graces the pedestal of the bronze life size statue of mills and his Border Collie scotch that since 2003 has stood in the corner of bond park in downtown estes park. An inscription reads enos a. Mills, the father of Rocky Mountain National Park. Homesteader, nature guide, naturalist, writer, lecture you are, photographer, and citizen of nature. The inscription continues as follows. He brought the love for nature and the wilderness to all that he
We often see jesse james is the apolitical. To just also taken a span and enable us to see a man who we should know is that who was during the civil war, deeply political. I is my pleasure to bring back to the stage tj stiles. [applause] question two very much. My grandfather to public speaking onetime summoned him up to him and said he wanted to go to the ballgame. A few times i find rather disappointing. I hope i dont jesse james is my first subject. I wrote about him to him because i want to write about the civil war and reconstruction is one story. I didnt want to write a boring story. s personal best through Popular Culture had a significant role in american history. Him thehan debunking way that scholars often do with popular figures, i found that he probably played a much more Important Role in recruiting people have previously realized. Very closely tied to the civil war. The reason why we know his name is because of the civil war. Im going to be talking book civil war a little
Information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. This is American History tv on cspan3. We are live from gettysburg, pennsylvania today for the annual Civil War Institute conference posted by denver college. We continue now with our live coverage. Im a member of the History Department here at the college. Im also the director of it cwi. Pleasure back to to on George Armstrong book heed upon a is 00 know the winner to put surprises. He will speak on another mistake the study of him by tj stiles. Its really at the point of a new wave of civil war scholarship focusing on guerrilla warfare. Will ft. Myers yesterday theyve all been doing work on what many have considered to be the periphery of the civil war. Wenks to these scholars now have a more expansive view of civil war military history. Isse james unfortunately sometimes perceived as a robin hood figure of the old west. We often see jesse james is the apolitical. To just also taken a span and enable us to see a
Its my pleasure to welcome back tj stiles to cwi. He spoke yesterday as you know. He spoke on George Armstrong custer, based upon a book that he received the pulitzer for. He is, as you all know, the winner of two pulitzers. This afternoon he is going to speak on another lets say misunderstood character in jesse james. Jesse james, the study of him by tj stiles is really at the point of a new wave of civil war scholarship thats focusing on guerilla warfare. You heard bart meyers yesterday. You met kim noe. They have all been doing work on what many have considered to be the periphery of the civil war. Thanks to these scholars and thanks to tj stiles, we now have a more expansive view of civil war military history. Jesse james, unfortunately, is sometimes perceived as a robin hood figure of the old west. We often see jesse james as being apolitical. That he is part of those bandits like bloody Bill Anderson. I think what is so impressive about what tj styles has done is that he has take