One of the most significant politicians in the country whose name is not remembered. Part of the problem is that in the nature. In 1954 there is enormous stigma and his widow made it her lifes work to make sure that the story of the suicide was never told. She went so far as to threaten the author of the history textbook that if he knew anything about the suicide in his textbook that she would sue him and so although he knew part of the story, he left it out and so for all these years students in history have read a book on page 521, but on page 521 of doctor larsons book it is overcome by personal and political problems he took his own life on june 19, 1953. He was enormously wellliked. Democrats democrats always have a hard time getting elected to the first time he ran for office, he was the top gogetter in his county and got elected to the legislature and people around the state asked him to run for state office when he became secretary of state and then governor. He was somebody th
Newspaper article or a Magazine Article that that could be a books . Yes. I read an article 10 years ago about how in, very shortly in the 21st century, more households in america will be supported by women and that that is a giant slot, i mean, a giant change. And it made me want to explore what the implications of that might be for men and women, for marriages, for raising children, for love, for courtship. And i got a great book out of it spent what was the books . It was cold the richer sex but it was written by a Washington Post reporter, and who is now at the new America Foundation in washington. It generated, landed on the cover of Time Magazine and it generated a huge conversation about how do we all need to adjust our lives to this economic new reality, and is this good for men and women . And i think we were in the camp of yes, even that makes couples stronger and live up to their potential is a good thing. One of the authors or pair of authors you worked with were nancy gibb
Are you throwing me off . Ive been disinvited. We have a little gift for y you. Oh, god, the pin. They are for you, peter. Thank you very much. [applause] you are watching tv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see here online apple tv. Org. While visiting cheyenne, wyoming, with the help of our local cable partner charter, we toured the sites in old cheyenne with lori van pelt, author of capital characters of old cheyenne. I focus on the air from the transcontinental railroad, the building of that, 1860s into the early 1900 a little bit beyond that. I wanted show a crosssection of some of the interesting people who were here and some the things that they did. I think there are many misconceptions about wyomings history and thats what makes it fun to be historian in wyoming. I think they dont realize how significant wyoming is in the nations history, and they dont realize that when National Women have the right to go during territorial days, and i was quite c
To contrast the amount of money that cost her salary by the public instruction was about 2,000. We are standing in front of the wyoming Supreme Court building. It used to be the labor rebuilding. It no longer is. Its significant of course and it has an interesting person involved with it. He was a powerful attorney in wyoming in the 188497 era and is significant in the state history because he was also the person, one of the people that defended the cattleman incident of 1892 and he was visiting Court Justice for wyoming. He was appointed to the United States Supreme Court and he was a justice who served from 1910 to 1932. He was the first and the only Supreme Court justice from the state of wyoming. Nathaniel robertson was a carriage maker here in cheyenne and originally came from aberdeen scotland and he was one of the finest carriage makers in the area and in 1882 he partnered with George Kaufman as well. One was for alexanders one of the swan landing cattle company. And that was a