We are proud to president another installment of her local event with bob richard. We are also very proud and you may have seen all the audiovisual equipment toward the back of the room. We are very proud to president cspan is filming thiss today so when you get home he you cannot only watch this on the center of the west to Youtube Channel youll be able to watch it on o cspan. Anyway this talk is an interesting genesis to me. Two of the earliest families in the area are either frost and Richard Family but the frost family had a ranch outside of town and one summer a photographer came to the summer and he had all this equipment. He had plates and photographers and yet all these cameras in the left them at the end of the summer. A 20yearold took Office Equipment at that point was not just a hunting guide by this leader of yellowstone he also became a photographer and Jack Richards became an esteemed photographer so photography runs in these two families and you haveen these families int
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Under the umbrella of different federal departments. Okay. So heres our exploration of progressive era responses to the what it was understood to be the end of the frontier and if we have time well get to a massive adventure in applied history where i got to go to Harney County where the National Wildlife refuge was taken over by the bundy brothers so i get ill have a presentation on that if time permits because that was probably really the most intense experience on the ground of being in the place. Community still very divided by that takeover. I hope i can get to that, as well. So, first a guessing game. This is somebody who said a lot of things that i think people have forgotten. Including me. Including me. Ive forgotten some of the things. So heres the question i guess for the sake of wider audience. Ill read it. The Public Domain has been a force of profound importance in the nationalization and development of the government. And the person who said that is probably not someone y
By the bundy brothers so i get ill have a presentation on that if time permits because that was probably really the most intense experience on the ground of being in the place. Community still very divided by that takeover. I hope i can get to that, as well. So, first a guessing game. This is somebody who said a lot of things that i think people have forgotten. Including me. Including me. Ive forgotten some of the things. So heres the question i guess for the sake of wider audience. Ill read it. The Public Domain has been a force of profound importance in the nationalization and development of the government. And the person who said that is probably not someone you would have expected to have said that because, in fact, it is somebody who said a lot of things and then he didnt he or she didnt end up getting credit for that. So who said that . Isnt it fun to be told that youre going to be tricked . Come on, suckers. Come on. Essentially. It is in your reading. You did. I said that . No.