Growth of the u. S. Beef industry. The Watkins Museum of history and lawrence kansas hosted this event. Good evening everyone. Welcome to our latest book chat at the watkins. I am will hickox. I thank you for joining us tonight. Im starting to sound like a broken record before every event, but these days, when there are so many options for things to do with our free time, and you can just sit on your couch every evening. It is very encouraging and exciting for us here at the museum to have folks come in for our events. We really appreciate it. I know that the staff of the bookstore appreciates it as well. I will introduce tonights guest speaker. James sherow is University Distinguished professor at the department of history at kansas state university. He specializes in researching and teaching environmental history. Kansas history. North American Indian history and the history of the American West. Professor sherow sherow has written six books and numerous articles. It is a familiar re
Tgsds and here, here is the thing that shaped the trade more than anything else altogether. This tick, a lovely little creature, and then it harbored a three micron large protozoan, a tiny Little Critter inside the belly of this tick. Now, this tick thrived in the southern regions of the United States, in the southern portions of texas but also in mississippi and louisiana, georgia, florida, and what this tick would do, it latches on to the cattle. It would latch onto deer and horses as well, and then it would release this protozoan into the bloodstream of the cattle. In the south, the long horns and the cherokee cattle both developed immunities to this tick. The mothers milk gave those calves enough immunity where they could survive. They would be they would be touched by this disease, but they would survive it and grow into adulthood. This protozoan, when it got into the bloodstream of an animal that wasnt protected by the antibodies that its mother had given it, it would directly at
Evening, its very encouraging and exciting for us here at the museum to have folks come in for our events. We really appreciate it. And i know that the staff of the raven bookstore appreciates it as well. So now ill introduce tonights guest speaker. James e. Sherow is a professor in the department of history at kansas state university. He specializes in researching and teaching environmental history, kansas history, and the history of the american west. Professor sherow has written six books and numerous articles, including Railroad Empire across the heartland, rephotographing Alexander Gardners westward journey, which is a familiar resource for the staff and volunteers at the watkins. I know we have that book on our shelves and weve used it. And the grasslands of the United States. Tonight, professor sherow will discuss his latest work, and copies will be available for purchase and signing thanks to our partners at the raven bookstore right here in lawrence, kansas. So without further
Tell us more about that. Bill the easiest example is dinosaurs. For thousands of years people had no idea that these great beasts had ever existed. Now we have not only created information about them, but disseminated it so widely that every fouryearold child has a collection of little plastic dinosaurs. Most of what academics do is sort out the conflicts of what was said at the time to create a clearer and more detailed and accurate picture of the past so that we know things about the romans that the romans didnt know. We know things about baseball and the 1960s that the Baseball Players in the 1960s did not know. Brian when did you know you wanted to write this particular book . Bill i stumbled into it without making a decision to do it. I was supposed to be working on a book with my wife, which i am still working on, about the wanted to write this particular history of kansas. I saw a pbs show about the murders in villisca, iowa and thought i would put a couple of hours into trackin
Serial killer mystery. Brian bill james, in your new book the man from the train, your first sentence is i have long been fascinated by the notion that knowledge can be created about the past. Tell us more about that. Bill the easiest example is dinosaurs. For thousands of years people had no idea that these great beasts had ever existed. Now we have not only created information about them, but disseminated it so widely that every 4yearold child has a collection of little plastic dinosaurs. Much of what academics do is sort out the conflicts of what was said at the time to create a clearer and more detailed and more accurate picture of the past so that we know things about the romans that the romans didnt know. We know things about baseball in the 1960s that the Baseball Players in the 1960s did not know. Brian when did you know you wanted to write this particular book . Bill i stumbled into it without making a decision to do it. I was supposed to be working on a book with my wife, whi