People are going to accuse me of doing a dual narrative. I just love the story. Anyway that became the story on british history. I would argue that was the last dual narrative that i did in my view. I dont look at this as a dual narrative. So yeah. I dont have so much of a question but first of all i want to thank you for all the great hooks you are providing. I have been telling friends that if you read the book you are only reading half the story. What i mean by that, if you look at the notes towards the back of the book he provides so much more information that you are not getting in reading the book. For example he puts in his footnotes where you can go to a web site and see film of people boarding the boat that was taken on the boat and found this the boat was leaving the harbor. He was just so nice that you offer all this Additional Information for the readers. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you very much for your comment because i have learned by the way overtime that peo
[inaudible conversations] and good evening. They give poor joining for our it event for the oregon trail. We got so excited when we read the book at the very beginning we decided to do something fun with the publisher. Here is what we did. We thought we would take the advanced copy to send it on its own Little Journey to independent bookstores. In kansas city we got together then retook get on its own little trail which went to the Indian Mission and the Pioneer Family section and in the old west port to take it there and the scalp statute and we went to the pioneer area there is two pictures of that then we went to the Stock Exchange building behind the cows and we started the of books to put the pictures as it went on his journey. We had customers right notes in the book and put the pictures in their. So that is the book as we shipped it out across the country. We had so much fun we got some great feedback from other booksellers along the way some was a fun project. So now please tel
They were treating the land and i learned that at this time, and it was 25 years ago, that covered may be half a million acres or more and i thought would be interesting to do a book that tracks how a ranch the size got put together over time and what that said about the west. And then eventually turn into this book and that included what a lot of latter day saints were talking about in pioneer times. In this is a longer chapter in my book. This is a more condensed version of what happened and it concentrates on the newspaper coverage of the event so after i wrote the book i got to read more about how these newspapers did it and it struck me the newspapers got some of the newspapers got it so magnificent wrong that it led to a misunderstanding of these events that was not cleared up until 100 years after words. That is what this is about. Does that sound interesting . What do you think . All right. Saturday, july 20th, 1889, 11 months before wyoming became a state a woman and man were