In new york city and the southern festival of books in nashville. For more information and to watch our previous festival coverage, click the book fairs tab on our website, booktv. Org. The cspan cities tour is on the road exploring the american story. Bozeman in many ways in Galveston County is a lamp of the way montanas changing. It is one of the fastest month metropolitan areas in terms of growth in the country. We take you to bozeman montana situated in the other part of the state 90 miles from Yellowstone National park drawing many tourists to the city. Over the next hour and 15 minutes we will hear from local authors about the areas history, politics and literary landscape. We begin with a visit to Montana State university and a look inside the eyethan doig collection. Ivan is a montana author, wellknown montana author of 15 memoirs and novels. He was raised here in montana and spent his adult life in seattle but continued to come back to montana and wrote many books beloved mike
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
Street, story motors, 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. It ought to be story. Or storyville, or story town. Personally, i think bozeman has a better ring to it than any of those other options. So it remained bozeman. Nelsons curious about story since his name was plastered all over the place here. I just wanted i doubt more about it. There has not i just wanted to find out more about it. There has not been a fulllength biography about it, so 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 ma
Over the next hour and 15 minutes, well hear from local authors about the areas history, politics and literary landscape. We begin with a visit to Montana State university and a look inside the collection. A well known antenna author, 16 memoirs and novels, he was raised here in montana. At her invitation and possibly a little bit about what we can do if she decided to deposit the collection with us and came back and wrote a proposal and a key feature of our proposal was that we said we would digitize the entire collection in less than a year so because digitize the entire thing is available on the internet for anyone in the world to see. Primarily we have documents. We have a lot of sound recordings and a lot of photographs, diary entries, obviously many books manuscripts for some books we have as many as seven manuscript versions so a lot that goes to the writers process colin medical records, all of that. He loves manual typewriters. We have many photographs of him in the archives a