At cspan. Org citiestour. Cspans cities tour is exploring the american story as we take book tv and American History tv on the road. Every first and third weekend of the month, we bring you the history and literary life of a different that he as we visit Historic Sites and talk to local authors. With support from our spectrum cable partners, this weekend we traveled to bozeman, montana. Situated in the southern part of the state, bozeman sits 90 miles from Yellowstone National park, drawing many tourists to the city. Over the next hour, we will learn about the history of the bozeman and the surrounding region. When i first moved to bozeman, there were so many story, story streets, story distributing, story hills, but there was not a lot written on him. There was a historian who once said to me you know, bozeman is misnamed. He said it ought to be story. Orstory bill storyville, story town. Personally, i think bozeman has a better ring to it than any of those other options. They remaine
Street, story motors, story distributing, story hills. But there was not a lot written on him. There was a historian who once said to me, you know, bozeman is misnamed. It ought to be story. Or storyville, or story town. Personally, i think bozeman has a better ring to it than any of those other options. So it remained bozeman. Nelsons curious about story since his name was plastered all over the place here. I just wanted i doubt more about it. There has not i just wanted to find out more about it. There has not been a fulllength biography about it, so over the years, i put it together. Nelson story was one of the more successful western capitalists in the history of the American West. If you take a step back and try and name others, you come up with Leland Stanford in california. Im sure that name rings a bell area you would have John Creighton from nebraska. John e live from northern colorado, and all of those people were very good. They started the most part and goldmining. After ma
Over the next hour and 15 minutes, well hear from local authors about the areas history, politics and literary landscape. We begin with a visit to Montana State university and a look inside the collection. A well known antenna author, 16 memoirs and novels, he was raised here in montana. At her invitation and possibly a little bit about what we can do if she decided to deposit the collection with us and came back and wrote a proposal and a key feature of our proposal was that we said we would digitize the entire collection in less than a year so because digitize the entire thing is available on the internet for anyone in the world to see. Primarily we have documents. We have a lot of sound recordings and a lot of photographs, diary entries, obviously many books manuscripts for some books we have as many as seven manuscript versions so a lot that goes to the writers process colin medical records, all of that. He loves manual typewriters. We have many photographs of him in the archives a
The estranged husband you know you are a Person Of Interest . The ex. The brandnew boyfriend. Somebody knew that we were seeing each other and didnt like it. And the unbelievable thing that, they were all there in the morning of the murder. So who did it . My stomach was in my throat. All of us were a little taken aback. It was really hard for my brain to wrap around that. It was early morning, still dark. The spring air was a cold blanket around the pick up parked and running near the main street of little glendive, montana. At 5 20 am, the Passenger Side door opened, a woman stepped out and hurried across the and the street to the entrance to her downtown apartment. Her coat, disheveled. Her bra slung over one arm. The mans eyes followed her through the dark. Drawn as other mens eyes were, like moths to flame. To her. To the woman now crossing the sidewalk to her doorway, susie. Lightning in a bottle. They were all there. There at susies front door. Each one of them was part of that
Weekend has been provided by Consumer Cellular, this is sam. How may i help you . This is pocket dial. With Consumer Cellular you get nationwide coverage with no contract. That is kind of our thing. Have a nice day. And with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contbutions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. John good evening, im john yang. The death toll from the maui wildfire keeps climbing. It now stands at 93, the most People Killed by any u. S. Wildfire in a more than a century. Hawaii governor josh green surveyed the damage with fema head Deanne Criswell and warned that the number of dead will grow. He said the search for bodies will take time. We have to go with caution. There are heavy metals there. There are toxic states where the houses have come down and the businesses have come down. The recommendations are to avoid those stru