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At the end of the day, 31 democrats joined all of the republicans in the vote to begin the impeachment inquiry into president clinton. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story, as we take book tv and American History tv on the road, with support from our spectrum cable partners. This weekend we traveled to laramie, wyoming. Coming up in the next hour and 10 minutes, well experience the history of this western city with a population of about 32,000. In about 10 minutes, well learn about senator Allen Simpson through his papers at the American Heritage center. After that, a tour of the wyoming territorial prison, where outlaws of the wild west were held, including Butch Cassidy. And later, we visit the deerwood ranch wild horse ecosanctuary to hear about its relationship with the bureau of Land Management. We begin our special feature with a visit to a mansion to hear about the early days of the city. Were in the mansion that edward ivenson built in 1892, and it is now the h
In a laramie, wyoming as well. So edward was actually of all the places, was born down in the caribbean. He lived there for seven years. His father moved there from england to manage a sugarcane plantation and he wound up in new york city in about 1852. While he was there, he met a young woman. He is 23, she was 16. They ran away to get married and they, like a lot of young folks, moved west to make their fame and fortune and wound up in laramie, wyoming. The family had been living in tennessee, and he decided to move the family to california. The way he thought he would get to california, he had a dry goods store and he sold all of the stuff and got freight cars and put his stuff in them. As the Union Pacific was built across the right planes, he great plains, he followed right along and had a rolling store. In the winter of 1867, he learns that the Union Pacific railroad is going to have a facility and what would become laramie. There was nothing here at the time. He came over for th
Should have the ability to go into the private sector when its in their best interest, when the care is better or specialized care is available thats not in the da. I think we all believe that should be available. Watch booktv at the weekend on cspan2. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story as we take booktv and American History tv on the road with support from our spectrum Cable Partners this week and we traveled to laramie, wyoming. Coming up we will speak with local authors about the cities history and more. We will hear about the influence the Energy Industry has in the state of wyoming and then after that a visit to the ivinsons mansion to learn about the early days of the city. Hear how the sport of road you became a symbol of the american west. We began our special feature with the conversation about retail pioneer j. C. Penney. Like most people in wyoming at the turnofthecentury, he was a transplant pig is born raised in missouri by to think j. C. Penney was a co
Im an assistant professor of history at the university of southern california. And this is my first inperson conference in since the pandemic and after two years where giving a conference paper was basically sitting alone in my apartment justiculating at my laptop. Its really wonderful to i guess be able to justiculate in person to you guys today. So just wanted to give a big thank you to the organization of american historians for putting together this conference and for accommodating all of the different varieties in which people chose to participate even though i know that came at some great logistical challenges. I also want to think Raylan Barnes who unfortunately cant be here today. But who is really the one responsible for bringing us all together today . She originally conceived of the round table as one that would be focused on the civil war in the west. But ultimately last year around february decided to focus it on 1862. This is the year when the Republican Party succeeded a