Freeman became secretary of agriculture. We organized the agriculture department, so Conservation Service was affected. He could gooice to great falls, montana, or casper, wyoming, and he opted for casper, fortunately. I used to tell a story that if that had not happened, i would never have met lynn, and she would have married to someone else. Her responses, yes, and then he would have been Vice President of the united states. He has a dry sense of humor, and you hear this from people who were his compatriots and colleagues over the years. This guy who seems somewhat humorless went on camera interviews, and in fact, he has got a good wit to him, and he says kind of funny aphoristic things, but he generally will not do that on camera. Will not do that in interviews. He has got this private side that has made him a lot of very loyal ones, particularly here in wyoming, but i think elsewhere as well. It is easy to slip into cliched description of smalltown life and Rural America when you t
Welcome to this session of the texas book festival with h. W. Brandis. My name is steve hair again. I will be doing a q a with bill. 15 minutes after the session phil will be signing books in the book signing campus between the tenth and eleventh down the street. Please patronized the book signing tent in the bookstore, and pleas by the the book which wont be a problem. This is the book, the man who saved the union, Ulysses Grant and war and peace. If you by this book, proceeds will go to support texas libraries and literacy. It is a great book to read and to find a word because. H. W. Brands is the dixon Allan Anderson centennial prof. Of history in austin. His focus has been for many years on American History and politics and his biographies and histories include a number of tremendous books. This is the just the most recent. Also traitor to his class about Franklin Roosevelt, biography of Andrew Jackson called Andrew Jackson. The age of gold about the gold rush in the 1840s. The Fir
Capitol, Salt Lake City. To learn more about the cities on our 2014 tour, visit cspan. Org localcontent. We continue now with our look at the history of Salt Lake City. This is American History tv on cspan3. I would like to welcome you to the tabernacle here on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. This is the home of the mormon tabernacle choir. Some might call it americas choir. The mormon tabernacle choir was firstzed in 1847 when the pioneers came into this valley. It was a small group of people a bowery type building, very rustic, and they asked for a choir to perform, but it was in 1849 that welsh pioneers came to the valley and they saying in fourpart harmony. They saying in wells, and that decided youam young needed to be the nucleus of the great choir, so it really started in 1847 and 1849. They used to sing in a building over on the square that was is a temporary link, but they called it the tabernacle, and that is how the name came, the mormon tabernacle choir. When that was too
When the weapon was found, it still had green marks from the branch and they were able to find exactly where he had the branch on. A few years ago, for the 50th anniversary of the freedom riders, they had a reunion here in town, and one of the gentleman that came into town this is his bus tickets he had carried with him all these years. It is also the receipt he received for getting out of jail. He was arrested with all the other freedom riders that came into town for a breach of peace. It meant so much to him he carried them with him all these years. He was from san francisco. He came as an 18yearold student because he wanted to make a change. The impact it had. To immediately arrive here in jackson and the throw to in jail, for trying to improve society. You can tell when he gave it to us, this held a deep lays in his a deep place in his heart. The freedom riders consisted of hundreds of different people from across the country, all of the africanamericans, as well as a lot of white
The community are concerned with. Beyond get giving Salt Lake City its name, the Great Salt Lake is intertwined with the history of all of utah. Now in the early 21st century its been overshadowed by the mountains and by the grand National Parks of utah. But in the 19th century it was a focus of tour im of fascination, it was a focus of industry of mineral extractions, so for all those reasons the lake was and remains an integral part of utahs history. All weekend long, American History tv is featuring Salt Lake City, utah. The city awe Significant Growth after the trance Continental Railroad was completed in 1869 connecting the area to both the east and west. Together with our Comcast Cable parters, cspans local content Vehicles Team recently visited many sites exploring the citys rich history. Wilford woodruff was a very good journal keeper, he kept jurn aals from the time he joined the church in 1833 and continued keeping them up until his death in 1898. This is his very first journ