Somebody who insults women, marks the disabled, marks pows, just wanted to get an education. Watch afterwards sunday night at 9 00 eastern on cspan2s booktv. South dakota, along the banks of the missouri river, chosen as south dakotas capital city in 1889. Reflecting the american frontier is home to cowboys and cattle, the backdrop for iconic American Writer laura ingles little house on the prairie series. With help of our Cable Partners for the next hour we feature the Literary Community beginning with nancy koppel on the Important Role south dakota plays in american history. We are in the research and Publishing Office of the daily Historical Society and also the headquarters of the south dakota Historical Society press. Back in the day in 1997, i felt it was a niche we could fill in south dakota. Nobody was doing our history seriously. I shouldnt say nobody, that is not fair. There was a concerted effort to do publishing for the state of south dakota, to do it right, you have to hav
Next year. She has been an important part of us launching the book series. She has a fantastic book of her own, aside with this really collection. She will talk a little bit about the book during our q a. It is a fantastic story. It is about people just like us who decided they need to do their part to defend liberties country. And it puts a fantastic spin on that notion. Without further ado i present my friend and colleague. [applause] kelly thank you all for coming. Thank you to chris, for putting together this wonderful program. I am looking for to the three days we had together. I would like to second year thank you to the staff and , people for this wonderful i got wonderful place. I got to sit outside on the porch earlier today. We are very lucky to be here. I want to give background. I was in the early stages of doing some research on a project. I wanted to look at the Recruitment Practices for the United States colored troops. They were the black men that fought for the union d
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
About a possible blackout months before the super bowl. On cbs this morning. Zbles that he how hard the city of new orleans parties, even their football stadiums blackout. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. We are learning new details about the end of an alabama hostage drama. Fbi agents raided an underground bunker yesterday shooting and killing the kidnaper. The captive a fiveyearold boy ethan is said to be okay. They had to move in because the kidnaper was growing desperate. Mark strassmann good morning. Reporter good morning norah and charlie. Ethan is waking up with his mother for a first time in the week but bomb technicians spent time in the bunker processing the crime scene and looking for improvised explosives. It began asended as violently as it began with a gunshot. Hes a special child. By the grace of god hes okay. Reporter ethan spent seven days underground, the prisoner of jimmy lee dykes, just the two of them inside a bunker four feet wide six feet lon
Reunite a mother with her child. The fbi storms an alabama bunker, ending a weeklong hostage siege. Sneaking a tiny camera into the underground bunker. Dykes was holding a weapon. They feared the boys life was in imminent danger. Ethan has been taken to a hospital where hes been reunited with his mother. Jimmy lee dykes is dead. Happy, relieved, and hallelujah. Senator bon menendez answered tough questions about allegations of improper travel and parties with prostitutes. Its amazing to me. So the bottom line is all of these sneers are false. Thats the bottom line. The u. S. Filed a civil lawsuit against s p 500 over alleged wrongdoing that fueled the financial crisis. After 28 years on capitol hill, john kerry arrived for work at the state department. Kerry was sworn in as secretary on friday. As the saying goes, i have big heels to fill. A massive fire at a lumberyard. Firefighters were hurt. The daredevil and list of Tall Buildings hes climbed all that 99. 99 of gunners in america a