good evening everyone, welcome to our latest raven book chat and i am will pick talks at the hawkins and i thank you for joining us tonight. i m starting to sound like a broken record before every event but these days when there s so many options for things to do with every time. you could just sit on your couch never evening. through you critique alexei for us to have folks come in for our events so we really appreciate it. i know that the staff of raven bookstore appreciated as well. i ll introduce you to our guest speaker, james sherow is a professor and the department of history at kansas state university and he specializes in research environmental history and north american indian history and history of the american west. professor sherow as written six books norment articles and empire across the heartland, re-photographing alexander gardeners journey which is a familiar resource first staff involved here and i know we have that book on our shelves and we ve used it.
to the city of abilene, kansas. next kansas state university , history professor james sherow talks about his book, the chisholm trail: joseph mccoy s great gamble. mr. sherow chronicles entrepreneur joseph mccoy s success in national and international cattle trading. that sparked the growth of the u.s. beef industry. the watkins museum of history hosted this event. it is about 90 minutes. good evening, everyone. welcome to our latest raven book chat. i will hickox amcoordinator here at watkins museum of history . i welcome you. these days, when there are so many options to do with our free time, even to sit on your couch every evening, it is very encouraging and exciting for us at the museum to have folks come in for our events. we really appreciate it. i know the staff at the raven bookstore appreciates it as well. now i will introduce to night s guest. james sherow in researching and teaching environmental history, kansas history, north american indian history and the
the office of speaker of the house of the united states house of the united states house of the united states house of representatives is hereby declared vacant. mccarthy s cardinal sin, say his critics, was working with president biden and the democrats on a last minute budget agreement to avoid a goernment shutdown last weekend. let s take a closer look at the lawmakers who want to take his place. jim jordan of ohio was first elected to congress in 2007. on friday morning, his bid got a major boost. former president donald trump wrote on truth social: jordan is one of trump s biggest congressional allies, receiving the presidential medal of freedom from trump in a closed door ceremonyjust days afterjanuary sixth capitol riot in 2021. jordan currently chairs the housejudiciary committee, where he launched several investigations into president biden, his son hunter and the fbi. he is also a founder and former chairman of the ultraconservative house freedom caucus and was amon
a break after hours on the road this man started in center city and went south and now headed north. i came down to baltimore. to get me and now back up north to new jersey where her family is. 90% of those traveling this holiday will travel by car. it s not the busiest day for drivers. yesterday tuesday night was the busiest time in terms of road travel, a lot of people want to beat the rush and wound up in traffic last night. fueling much of this cheap gas prices but not for james mead he doesn t need a drop for his tesla. free super charging for life, it costs me nothing to travel across the country. no fuel costs from florida to new york. zero dollars. whether electric or internal combustion it s a time to be with family and a certain red velvet cake. my sister is cooking up a feast. i am greedy starving myself waiting for the cake and i m not sharing with my brother, yes you heard me say that. a sibling rivalry there of long standing. an estimated
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