DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
2011 FALL CRITCHLOW LECTURE SERIES
PRESENTS
Dr. Elliott West
Alumni Distinguished Professor of History, University of Arkansas
“THE WEST BEFORE LEWIS AND CLARK: THREE LIVES”
Dr. West splices together the lives of three persons to bring out how much had been happening in the West prior to the mythic event that, too often, is pictured as setting western history in motion. A man who joined LaSalle’s second expedition at twelve, helped in his murder, went native, got arrested by the Spanish and ended up a prominent New Mexican before being killed by the Pawnees; a Missouri woman who bore a son by a French trader and visited Paris with a delegation in 1725, visiting the court and meeting Louis XV before living out her life in Illinois; a young New Mexican mother who was captured by Comanches, sold to the Pawnees, married to a French trader and taken to St. Louis, where she became a matriarch and was there when Lewis and Clark passed through on their way west.
Monday, October 17, 2011
7-9:00 pm
Weber State University Hurst Center for Lifelong Learning, Dumke RoomLECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Past Critchlow Lectures
2010
DR. LOUIS S. WARREN
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
"A HOLE IN THE DREAM: THE GHOST DANCE AND THE MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA"
FALL 2009
“THE HISTORY OF OPERA IN UTAH”
Professor Mark Eifler
University of Portland
"The Geopolitics of the Lewis and Clark Expedition"
Professor John Mack Faragher
Yale University
"A New Look at Violence in the American West"
2005
Fred C. Adams
Utah Shakespeare Festival
"History of Theater in Utah"
2004
Robert Briggs
Fullerton, California
"The Invasion of Suthern Utah: Pre-Conditions to the 1857 Disaster at Mountain Meadows"
2003
David Haward Bain
Middlebury College
"Wasatch to Green Mountains: Tracking Bernard DeVoto, Teacher/Historian"
2002
Brad Dimock
Flagstaff, Arizona
"Sunk without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde"
2001
James P. Ronda
University of Tulsa
"By the Book: Lewis and Clarke's Voyage into Print"
2000
Carol Madsen
Brigham Young University
"Crossing the Divide: The Personal Diplomacy of Emmeline B. Wells,
Nineteenth Century Mormon Activist"
1999
Davis Bitton
University of Utah
"George Q. Cannon and the Economy of Territorial Utah"
1998
Ross Peterson
Utah State Unviersity
"When Politics were Civil: Stewart Udall's Contribution to the Humanities, 1961-1969"
1997
Thomas Alexander
Brigham Young University
"Building Zion, Restoring Eden, and Preparing for the Miiennium: 19th Century Mormon Prohets and Environment"
1996
Jean Bickmore White
Weber State University
"Dreams, Myths, and REality: A Centennial Perspective on Utah's Consitution"
1995
William Mulder
University of Utah
"In Their Own Tongue: Nordic-Language Immigrant Culture in Early Utha"
1994
Valeen Tippetts Avery
Northern Arizona University
"Contested Ground: David Hyrum Smith Comes to Utah, 1869-1875"
1993
Wayne Carver
Carleton College
"A Strickly Personal History of Baseball, Plain City, and Me"
1992
Leanard Arrignton
Utah State Unviersity
"Symbols of Growth and Development: The First National Bank of Ogden and its Affiliates"
1991
Dean May
University of Utah
"Gold, War, and the New West of the 1860s"
1990
Ronald Walker
Brigham Young University
"Women on the Utah Indian Frontier"
1990
William J. Critchlow III
Ogden, Utah
"Captain James Brown: A Founder of Ogden"