Eisenhowers west upbringing noounsed his personal code of behavior and his actions as a military and political leader. We are pleased to have our own tim reaves here. He is our Deputy Director and our super vizry archivest. He is my goto guy for all archives and administrative records questions. I rely on him greatly. Hes here to speak to you today on the western influences on our dwight eisenhower. Hes a graduate of Wichita State and served in the United States army for five years. Thank you for your service. Tim is the author of many articles on a variety of subjects. These include eisenhower, of course, the presidency of ulysses s. Grant and prison baseball. Of course. So i hope that you enjoy our program today. Please welcome with me tim reaves. [ applause ] well, thanks everybody. And great to see such a nice turnout during the middle of the week, and really appreciate it again. We know that the food has a large part in the attraction of these events, not just the speakers we attr
American history tv in prime time focusing on the American West and cowboy culture. Up next how president Dwight Eisenhowers west upbringing noounsed his personal code of behavior and his actions as a military and political leader. We are pleased to have our own tim reaves here. He is our Deputy Director and our super vizry archivest. He is my goto guy for all archives and administrative records questions. I rely on him greatly. Hes here to speak to you today on the western influences on our dwight eisenhower. Hes a graduate of Wichita State and served in the United States army for five years. Thank you for your service. Tim is the author of many articles on a variety of subjects. These include eisenhower, of course, the presidency of ulysses s. Grant and prison baseball. Of course. So i hope that you enjoy our program today. Please welcome with me tim reaves. [ applause ] well, thanks everybody. And great to see such a nice turnout during the middle of the week, and really appreciate
Nativeamericans. Coming over the trail and then some by sea small little villages really of americans and europeans had arrived. But mostly along the shoreline, and that was because the primary purpose here for people that were settling was cutting timber and milling timber. That was then sent down to san francisco. So that prompted a lot of entrepreneurs and small investors and adventures to come up and begin to build cities. And so seattle, bellingham, olympia, all were small, sma smallish communities of 50 to 100 people. Really the pride of the transcontinental. But after the conclusion of the civil war and the announcement really that the railroad was coming, every community, you know, hoped that they would be the terminal sit a, that they would be chosen for the railroad. So it came down to really being between seattle, tacoma and olympia. And so by 1873, by early 1873 the transcontinental obviously was being built in two directions. So it didnt just have one rail. But a big decis
Hes a graduate of Wichita State and served in the United States army for five years. Thank you for your service. Tim is the author of many articles on a variety of subjects. These include eisenhower, of course, the presidency of ulysses s. Grant and prison baseball. Of course. So i hope that you enjoy our program today. Please welcome with me tim reaves. [ applause ] well, thanks everybody. And great to see such a nice turnout during the middle of the week, and really appreciate it again. We know that the food has a large part in the attraction of these events, not just the speakers we attract. So again thanks to the foundation and the miller nickels trust. All this started with my interest in ike and the old west the 125th anniversary of ikes birth, and 1890 the year ike was born was also the year it was closed. So we did a lot of programs looking at ike, and i did one on the influence of his political thinking and imagination. Ill include a little built of that today, but i want to h
WILMINGTON — Thomas Clark Connell, Sr., known as “Papa,” by those who knew and loved him, was called home to be with his Lord and Savior on 20 January 2024.