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Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium 
​Iron Rails, Wagon Trails, & Snail Mail
Sat., June 6, 2020, 
East Library
5550 N. Union Blvd.
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
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Click here to reserve your seats for this free event!

8:30 a.m. Doors Open at East Library

9:00 a.m. Welcome & Opening Remarks

9:15 – 10:45 a.m.  
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The Santa Fe Trail - Travel Tales

  • Dr. Mike Olsen - Trail to Rail: The Iron Horse and the Demise of the Old Santa Fe Trail
  • ​Heather Jordan - The Road to Suffrage: Susan B. Anthony and the Colorado Women’s Suffrage Referendum of 1877
  • ​Leo Oliva - Women Writers on the Santa Fe Trail​
  • Nancy Prince - The Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Line in 1900 – One Family’s Covered Wagon Trip
  • Panel Q&A

10:45 – 11 a.m.
Break


11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
The Landscape –Exploration, Imagination, & Limitation

  • Eric Swab - Three Trails That Ring Cheyenne Mountain, Three Tales of Infidelity, Bribery, and Provocation
  • Brad Bowers - The Frontier of Enterprise in Pueblo County in the Early Twentieth Century     
  • Dr. Doreen E. Martinez - Historicizing Indigenous Presence: Footprints, Artifacts, and Indigenous Ways of Being and Knowing
  • Jay Fell - Art, Science, and Exploration: Stephen Long, Edwin James, and the Yellow Stone Expedition of 1820
  • Panel Q&A

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

1:15 – 3:15 p.m.

Utopia in the West – Ethics, Morality, & Maladies

  • Mark James - Edwin James, Pikes Peak, and the American West
  • Katherine Scott Sturdevant - The Quaker Trail: Moral Infiltration and Disintegration in the Early Pikes Peak Region
  • Patrick Lee - Oliver Bowman’s Coal Carbonization Plant and a Vision of Utopia
  • Susan Fletcher - “You Have Died of Dysentery:” Playing Pioneers with The Oregon Trail, Lincoln Logs, and Toy Trains
  •  Panel Q&A

​3:15 – 4:30 p.m.
Reception & Special Presentation
Schedule and speakers subject to change.



The Pikes Peak Library District's Regional History Series chronicles the unique and often undocumented history of Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West.

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