President ial library and museum and is quoted during this talk. The hoover president ial Foundation Provided this video. Jerry welcome to our Third Thursday Program series. I am the president and ceo of the hoover president ial foundation. We are glad you are here with us today. Our partners for the Third Thursday Program are the hoover president ial library museum, hoover historic site, west Branch Public library, and the hoover president ial foundation. Todays speaker is craig wright. Craig is the supervising archivist at the hoover president ial library museum. Craigs talk will be travels with dad, lous 1921 crosscountry trip. Craig thank you for that wonderful introduction. Thank you to everyone for tuning in and checking out this video. I am here to talk about lou henry hoover, one of my favorite ladies from history. I started learning about her 16 years ago when i began working at the hoover president ial library. Quite a woman before her time. Lou henry was born in waterloo, io
Craigs talk will be travels with dad, lous 1921 crosscountry trip. Craig thank you for that wonderful introduction. Thank you to everyone for tuning in and checking out this video. I am here talk out lou henry hoover, e of my favorite ladies from history. I started learning about her6 years ago when i began working at the hoover esidential library. Quite a woman before her time. Lou henry was born in waterloo, iowa march 29, 1874. She was very close to her father, who was a bookkeeper at the First National bank. For most of her ung life, she was hoping she could ginto banking as well. They were extremely close unti he passed away in 1928. She had a younger sister who was born on june 30, 1882. Her mother, florence, developed chronic bronchitis, which caused the family to move around, looking for an environment that was more conducive to her mothers health. First, they moved to shuttle rock, iowa. That did not work out and they moved back to waterloo. They tried texas. When that did not
Craigs talk will be travels with dad, lous 1921 crosscountry trip. Craig thank you for that wonderful introduction. Thank you to everyone for tuning in and checking out this video. I am here to talk about lou henry hoover, one of my favorite ladies from history. I started learning about her 16 years ago when i began working at the hoover president ial library. Quite a woman before her time. Lou henry was born in waterloo, iowa march 29, 1874. She was very close to her father, who was a bookkeeper at the First National bank. For most of her young life, she was hoping she could go into banking as well. They were extremely close until he passed away in 1928. She had a younger sister who was born on june 30, 1882. Her mother, florence, developed chronic bronchitis, which caused the family to move around, looking for an environment that was more conducive to her mothers health. First, they moved to shuttle rock, iowa. That did not work out and they moved back to waterloo. They tried texas.
President ial library museum. Craigs talk will be travels with dad, lous 1921 crosscountry trip. Craig thank you for that wonderful introduction. Thank you to everyone for tuning in and checking out this video. I am here to talk about lou henry hoover, one of my favorite ladies from history. I started learning about her 16 years ago when i began working at the hoover president ial library. Quite a woman before her time. Lou henry was born in waterloo, iowa march 29, 1874. She was very close to her father, who was a bookkeeper at the First National bank. For most of her young life, she was hoping she could go into banking as well. They were extremely close until he passed away in 1928. She had a younger sister who was born on june 30, 1882. Her mother, florence, developed chronic bronchitis, which caused the family to move around, looking for an environment that was more conducive to her mothers health. First, they moved to shuttle rock, iowa. That did not work out and they moved back t
Us for inviting the legendary ladies to visit with you today. The women of the west were quite varied. You need only look at the costumes they were and listens to the stories they told to understand this. Some women came west with husbands or fathers who were in search of gold, or opportunity in the west. Often the landscape they encountered was quite different from the one they left behind. Some had to learn new skills in order to survive. Some women were born here. Others came for their own reasons but each was met with a challenge due to their gender or the path they chose. So lets take a step back in time and bring history alive. In an era when opportunities for women were limited, Annie Oakleys amazing ability with the gun proved that women could do just as well or perhaps better than men. applause howdy yes sir. Annie oakley was my stage name. But i was christened phoebe and moses. My sisters thought phoebe was too fancy. As soon as i was big enough to lift my daddies hunting rif