Stockman tradition. Anyway, when i was growing up on small town montana, pretty rural and a community picnic, one time, the sole timer who was a homesteader. We back when was reminiscing about the family farm in wisconsin, and i asked how come he moved out to montana . And he said, well, there was free land out here and land was 20 an acre back in wisconsin. So he said he came out here for free land, which was the most expensive land he ever bought. So this panel was a dream of mine. Amy lauter is going to talk about the free land, socalled free land and i ive been looking for years and my search of 19th century illustrated stereotypes or stereotype ups of. And we have a panelist today who has figured out how to get a handle on that, which i never did. And so im excited about that as well. Hes our second presenter. The john coward our third presenter is the foremost authority on images of Indigenous People in the United States and we have that all tied up by somebody whos bringing the
Together. Im grateful to have been and katrina and all of you for this wonderful most really full program and worthy of the David Stockman tradition. Anyway, when i was growing up on small town montana, pretty rural and a community picnic, one time, the sole timer who was a homesteader. We back when was reminiscing about the family farm in wisconsin, and i asked how come he moved out to montana . And he said, well, there was free land out here and land was 20 an acre back in wisconsin. So he said he came out here for free land, which was the most expensive land he ever bought. So this panel was a dream of mine. Amy lauter is going to talk about the free land, socalled free land and i ive been looking for years and my search of 19th century illustrated stereotypes or stereotype ups of. And we have a panelist today who has figured out how to get a handle on that, which i never did. And so im excited about that as well. Hes our second presenter. The john coward our third presenter is the
Comedian by the name of tim sample and he has this great bit where he talks about getting directions and he says you cant get there from here. Ryan is a fell mainer and he has proven that you can get there from here. Ryan comes to you from the great state of maine. He began working here at the Military Park as an San Bernardino then as a seasonal. Hes also a tour guide at ken moore, an Historic House in downtown fredericksburg. The thing im most excited about with ryan and there are many things because he is an absolute rising rock star in the vein of kevin pollak. He said i love this story of monocracy and he started writing about lew wallace and monocracy and he was fascinated by it. And the emerging civil war gave him the opportunity to explore that passion and you could absolutely see it in the way that his research came together, in the way that he told the story and story and hes opened up what is essentially a littleknown bat until a fresh, exciting and especially relevant way s
Wildlife refuge was taken over. That was probably the most intense experience on the ground. Game. A guessing this is somebody who said a lot of things that i think people have forgotten, including me. Heres the question. For the sake of a wider audience, i will read it. The Public Domain has been a force of profound importance in the nationalization and development of government. The person who said that, you would not expect them to have said it. Who said that . Told you areto be going to be tricked . [inaudible] reading. In your i said that. No, i didnt. , they are theds core of the way the federal government grows. Frederick Jackson Turner said that. He has benefited from you folks theg here because i reread significance of the front tier in American History and i dont know what was going on. Ofen of the quoted passages strips theier pioneer of his formal dress and puts them in a canoe. There is a lot of stuff about indians in there. Who knew . Apparently, anyone who reads it would
Preserving it under the umbrella of different federal departments. The institute of American History posted this 90 minute class. Heres our exploration of progressive era responses to what was understood to be the end of the frontier. If we have time, we will get to a massive adventure in applied history where i got to go to Harney County where the National Wildlife refuge was taken over. I will have a presentation on becausetime permits that was probably the most intense experience on the ground. Very divided over that takeover. I hope i can get to that as well. First, a guessing game. This is somebody who said a lot of things that i think people have forgotten, including me. I have forgotten some of these things. Heres the question. For the sake of a wider audience, i will read it. The Public Domain has been a force of profound importance in the nationalization and development of government. The person who said that is probably not someone you would have expected to have said that, b