Household name. People know his name from public institutions, obviously from the banking legacy. Theres not a lot about him. Can you tell us about him and what you found so compelling about him as an agent and an actor within this story, this landscape that you are drawing. It. When i first started looking into this time. , i know a lot more about roosevelt did about morgan. As is probably true of most people. When i realized as i began researching is that this was really morgans world that roosevelt very kind of quickly and abruptly and welcomed in terms of wall streets point of view, treated. By the time roosevelt became president. Morgan was at the peak of his power and if he was the king of wall streets literally called zeus. On the eve of the inauguration. Roosevelt Vice President morgan had created the first billiondollar company in the world. Still with us today. As a company that employed more than any other company and control enormous amount of production. It was a huge mono
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