Will have heard from the gathered scholars. We are going to compile and edit a new volume in our William F Cody series on the history and culture of the american press. So all of the presenters are invited as they know to submit their work for consideration for this volume and all the rest of you are invited to purchase and read that volume when it comes out. So stay tuned. Its a great pleasure to introduce tonights key note speaker. Paul andrew hutten is an american cultural historian. Hes an Award Winning author. Hes documentary writer and television personality. He serves as a distinguished professor of history at the university of new mexico and as we all know hes published quite widely in both scholarly, academic venues and popular magazines and hes reached a very large audience through that kind of work. His work has been recogs in recognized far and wide and a sixtime winner of the western Heritage Award from the western Heritage Museum for his work in both print and film. Its h
The west in cody, wyoming. This is an hour and 20 minutes. On april 17, 1886, the omaha daily beast spoke of william codys visit to the town the day before. And his enthusiasm for his upcoming show. Which was to debut in st. Louis on may 9. After bragging about the number of sue actors he engage. Buffalo bill told of another coo. Theres one new artist i engaged who is a prodigy. A young girl only 15 years of age. Her powers with the rifle rk shotgun or revolver are marvelous. I dont bar anybody. Her name is Lillian Smith. He she comes from california. She will travel with her father and mother. Smith would later different herself from anny oakly and other performers by transforming herself into a native american princess. That transformation in 1901 presents a jux to position between youth and ethnicity. Through 1888 it was the Sharp Shooters youth and gender that presented both opportunities and lim limitations trt tune. Her acceptance presented some extraordinary challenges to a youn
And this wont be the last you will have heard from the gathered scholars. We are going to compile and edit a new volume in our William F Cody series on the history and culture of the american press. So all of the presenters are invited as they know to submit their work for consideration for this volume and all the rest of you are invited to purchase and read that volume when it comes out. So stay tuned. Its a great pleasure to introduce tonights key note speaker. Paul andrew hutten is an american cultural historian. Hes an Award Winning author. Hes documentary writer and television personality. He serves as a distinguished professor of history at the university of new mexico and as we all know hes published quite widely in both scholarly, academic venues and popular magazines and hes reached a very large audience through that kind of work. His work has been recogs in recognized far and wide and a sixtime winner of the western Heritage Award from the western Heritage Museum for his work
We learn about performers Lillian Frances smith. Anny oakly and johnny baker. From the Buffalo Bill Center of the west in cody, wyoming. This is an hour and 20 minutes. On april 17, 1886, the omaha daily beast spoke of william codys visit to the town the day before. And his enthusiasm for his upcoming show. Which was to debut in st. Louis on may 9. After bragging about the number of sue actors he engage. Buffalo bill told of another coo. Theres one new artist i engaged who is a prodigy. A young girl only 15 years of age. Her powers with the rifle rk shotgun or revolver are marvelous. I dont bar anybody. Her name is Lillian Smith. He she comes from california. She will travel with her father and mother. Smith would later different herself from anny oakly and other performers by transforming herself into a native american princess. That transformation in 1901 presents a jux to position between youth and ethnicity. Through 1888 it was the Sharp Shooters youth and gender that presented bot
The west posted something. Western historian paul hutton delivered the keynote address. He described how william cody became a symbol of the frontier and influenced american perception of western culture. This is just over an hour. Welcome, everyone, to the final event of what has been a terrific three days. You know, when you start to plan these things, and you think we will have this person and that person and do all this stuff. There was this moment when we started to put the program on paper and said we have 36 different speakers on this thing. It exceeded our expectations certainly. So thank you to everyone for all the terrific presentations. Thanks very much. [applause] and this wont be the last you will have heard from the gathered scholars. We are going to compile an edit a new volume in our women f. Cody series of the American West with the university of oklahoma press. All of the presenters are invited, as they know, to submit their work for consideration for this volume. The