Joining, there are three different ways to join. You can watch for free on the Library Facebook page and you can purchase a copy of the book for ten dollars and pick it up at your local branch after the release page or as is tonights case you can purchase the enhanced experience and receive a copy of the book and have dinner from a local restaurant delivered to your door the night of the program and watch. You can read about all of those menus on the website and while you are there you will see in the coming weeks we welcome sonja as many of you may remember from sesame street. And on october 202nd we welcome american poet and civil rights activist. There are a lot more. All of these events with the enhanced experience where you get a special meal delivered to your home. I would be remiss if i didnt mention none of this would be possible without the generous Financial Support of the Library Legacy foundation to host programs like tonights conversation and countless other programs and s
Narrator through 20 years of wavering and wondering, through hot and cold wars, through corruption, the American People have hungered for leadership founded on integrity and wisdom and courage. We have salt a leader who we have sought a leader who is of the people. A man to raise leadership by the people. A leader whose whole life has been spent for the people. A sturdy, humble heir to the respect and the affection all peoples felt for lincoln. Such a man is general ike dwight , d. Eisenhower, the man from abilene. Never in history have so Many Americans known so much about the very essence of one man. 100 million americans know eisenhower the way you know in neighbor. We know him by heart. And why do we cheer for him . Not because he is a general, and the cause is to instinctively but because instinctively, we believe in him. We hail him as a hometown boy who is the best of all americans. From the heartland of main street usa. I come here first to thank you, to say, the proudest thing
That are available at this time. They also stepped up to make todays virtual symposium possible. Thank you for your work. I would like now to introduce our next speaker. Barely. Y the managing editor of emerging civil war who was working behind the scenes to keep the blog up and going and to make sure that all of that free content is coming to you every day. Her work is invaluable to our organization. She is the author of call out the cadet a book series. She is also at work on a biography of the gallant pelham. Herwill present some of Research Associated with that book. Sarah kay barely. Bierle. Kay good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Im not exactly sure when you will be viewing this but i hope you are safe and well and we going to go ahead and ive right into the history. As chris said, i will be sharing some about the research i have been doing about the stewart artillery and john pelham but we will take a much broader range on it. We wont the focused on that unit or artiller
Americans here. It is very appropriate that we sort of begin with the contemporary. Im standing here right next to a magnificent piece of sculpture mighty noted artist, alan houser, who was a patchy. He was born in oklahoma. He was a descendant of drama was banned we moved to oklahoma after toronto and his band were captured. He later became a terrific artist geronamo as you can see this particular piece is a negative native american on horseback. That is truly the story of native americans in the Southern Plains region and in the panhandle, especially. Once forces became available to them, in the 16 hundreds, particularly the command cheese and some of the apache people, they were able to obtain horses from traders and santa fe, stealing some of them as well. They were able to then utilize the environment in a much more efficient manner because they could cover longer distances. The bye isnt hunting culture really became the strong suit, the highlight of the area, and it became a cult
Im jamie colby. And today, im driving in the badlands of eastern montana. Its rugged, bigsky, cattleranching country. Im on my way to meet a lifelong resident whose father left him a chunk of this land. Nice to have you here. Thanks for having us. My names Clayton Phipps. And in 1997, my father passed away, and i inherited from him a small portion of the family ranch. And along with that came a few pretty exciting surprises. 41yearold Clayton Phipps is like a character out of red river or lonesome dove. [ horse neighs ] most of the time, im on my own. Im happy that way. This ranch had been in our family since my greatgrandfather homesteaded here. And its a part of me that i just didnt feel like i wanted to ever part with. Clayton grew up and learned to cowboy here on the ranch his father shared with three brothers. He describes the operation as cashpoor but reasonably successful. My dad worked us hard, but that was a good thing, too. After claytons father dies in 1997, the ranch is spl