Registration is Open for the 2016 Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium

Myths & Mysteries of the
Rocky Mountain West

Sat. June 11, 2016, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
8:30 a.m.
Doors open at East Library

9 a.m.
Welcome & Opening Remarks

9:15–10:45 a.m.
Myths & Mysteries—Perception

• Michael L. Olsen—“Not a pepper nor an onion”: The Myth of the Bloodless Conquest of New Mexico in 1846
• Katherine Sturdevant—Manifest Destiny Comes to the Great American Desert: How Expansionist Legends Fared in the Rocky Mountain West
• Pamela Owens & Bernard (Beau) Schriever—Breaking from the Hurd: Toward a Real History of the Place Known as Bents’ First Stockade
• Beau Driver—“A Well Located Chautauqua”: The Garden of the Gods Summer School & Assembly of 1902
• Mike Olsen—Questions & Answers

10:45 –11 a.m.
Break

11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Myths & Mysteries—Place

• Steve Ruskin—Killer Rats & Missing Links: An Analysis of Two Regional Hoaxes that had National Impact
• John Stansfield—Weathering the Weird & Wild: Tall Tales & True of Army Life at the Pikes Peak Summit
• Susan Fletcher—Myths & Mysteries in the Museum
• Rick Sturdevant—UFO Sightings Across the Rocky Mountain West: A Historical, Non-Hysterical Survey
• Mike Olsen—Questions & Answers

12:30–1:15 p.m.
Complimentary Light Lunch

1:15–3:15 p.m.
Myths & Mysteries—People

• Joyce B. Lohse—Baby Doe Tabor: A Matchless Spirit
• Richard Marold—Winfield Scott Stratton: How Many Marriages?
• Dennis Daily—Lone Eagle: The White Sioux

PechaKucha*

• Eric Swab—Henry Law’s Lanter City: The Next Cripple Creek?
• Nethery Wylie—How do I look?: Western Women in Photographs
• Tammila K. Wright—Remember Who You Are
• Doris A. McCraw--Doc Susie & Hollywood: Myths of 19th Century Women Doctors in Colorado
• Mike Olsen—Questions & Answers

3:15–4:30 p.m.—Reception & “Oh! Oh! I know that!” Game Show

*PechaKucha is a short, slide-illustrated presentation.

The event is free to attend and a complimentary light lunch is served.

Click here to view the presentation descriptions.

Click here to reserve your seat or call (719) 531-6333, x2253.

Seats fill quickly, so make your reservations today!

Sponsored by
Pikes Peak Library District
Special Collections, Pikes Peak Library District
Helen & James McCaffery Fund for Regional History
Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District
Pikes Peak Library District Foundation
Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum
In Partnership with
Manitou Springs Heritage Center
Old Colorado City Historical Society
Pikes Peak Community College
Pikes Peak Genealogical Society
Pikes Peak Posse of the Westerners
Western Museum of Mining and Industry

Endorsed by
Colorado Humanities