Oldest, largest and one of our most beautiful vacation lands as Yellowstone National park. There it is in northwestern wyoming. Doesnt it touch your imagination a little . All the flowers and mountains are reserved for you. Established in 1872 by the United States congress, Yellowstone National park was the first National Park encompassing land from three states. The park is an economic driver for towns that surround it. Wele in bozeman montana, spoke with former park historian about his career and the impact the parkas had on the region. Us about your first yellowstone experience. My first yellowstone experience reaches way back. Ite for so many americans, was a vacation. Parents taught us, my brother yellowstone from norman oklahoma, our hometown and continued bringing us for many years. We were always interested in not just yellowstone but the whole american west. Into that trap of never going east, no matter what mother wanted to do. Mostly dad wanted to fish in yellowstone. So we
Thats 90 miles from Yellowstone National park, drawing many tourists to the city. We will learn about the history and the surrounding region. When i first moved, there were so many named story. A story streets, story motors, story distributing. Lot written on him. There was a historian who said bozeman is misnamed. Personally i think bozeman has a better ring to it than any of those other options. I was curious about nelsons story, since his name was plastered all over the place. Has not been a fulllength biography ever written about him. 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 making some headw
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
The effort to add more supreme justices to the Supreme Court. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker. Are store would be more than happy to sell you one to 10 copies. So Mark C Johnson has worked as a broadcast journalist. And as a communication and Crisis Management consultant. A graduate of south dakota university. He has chaired the Federation Councils and served as a National Endowment for the humanities. He writes and speaks regularly on political history, with particular focus on the new deal. His writing on politics, and history has appeared in numerous regional and National Publications including the new york times, the california journal of politics and most importantly montana, them magazine of western history. Welcome mark johnson. [ applause ] well, thank you. Take you to the Montana Historical society for having me tonight to talk about this ancient history. I keep trying to figure out a way to begin these talks. I am always reminded that he has been dead for 40 years,
Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable nancy pelosi. The speaker of the house of representatives. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Yes. Yes, indeed. This afternoon is very much a cause for celebration and cheering for what happened 100 years ago today. In the house of representatives. Well, thank the u. S. Army String Quartet for making it so pleasant for us. [ applause ] im honored to be here with Kevin Mccarthy and the bipartisan members of congress. Mostly our women members of congress. We salute our cochairs of the bipartisan house caucus for womens issues, congresswoman Brenda Lawrence and congresswoman debbie lesko. [ applause ] and let us welcome cokie roberts, a trail blazing force for women in journalism and her daughter rebecca, an outstanding journalist in her own right writing about women. [ applause ] as many of the women members know, the lindy boggs room in this room, the only room named for a woman in the capitol is named for cokies lovely mother and rebeccas grandmother, l