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2010-11 Lecture Series - Speaking of Colorado: This Land Through Time
 Convenient
schedule: We will present each lecture
at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Where: All lectures take place at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center at the corner of 14th Avenue and Grant Street, 1370 Grant Street.
Tickets: The cost for the eight-part series is $45
for History Colorado members, $60 for nonmembers. Individual lecture tickets are $7 for members;
$8.50 for nonmembers.
To sign up/ Information: call 303/866-4686.
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 September 21: The West Before Lewis and Clark: Three Lives
Contrary to the impression we often get, there was plenty going on in the West before the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804. This famous duo was entering a West where great changes had been at work for more than a century, revolutionizing the lives of American Indians and pitting great European powers against one another. Learn about this era by following the experiences of three people—a young Frenchman who passed through in 1684, an Osage man from the 1720s (who visited Paris), and a woman from New Mexico who ended up in St. Louis. History Colorado is proud to welcome back presenter Dr. Elliott West of the University of Arkansas, who first spoke to our audiences in 1990, as he offers an insightful look into this distant past.
October 19: Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses: The Horse Trade and the Early American West, 1775–1825
A fascinating sequence of events spanned the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the West, when wild and Indian horses became the focus of a major economic trade. The horse trade drew the interest of everyone from American Indians to Hispano mustangers to American horse traders—and even President Thomas Jefferson, who sought geopolitical advantage from it. A profitable business emerged, with upward of one thousand horses a month driven to horse markets beyond the Mississippi River, that paralleled the fur trade farther north. Join Dr. Dan Flores of the University of Montana as he explores this lesser-known industry that had a tremendous impact on southeastern Colorado.
November 16: Augusta Tabor: Colorado Pioneer
Scholar and historic portrayer Mary Jane Bradbury has been bringing history to life for more than ten years. Join History Colorado for an evening of entertainment as we “meet” Mrs. Augusta Tabor, often called the First Lady of Leadville and a legend on the Colorado mining frontier. A wife, a mother, and one of the first women to come west in the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush, Augusta lived a life of adventure and discovery in the magnificent Rocky Mountains. Though many consider her a footnote to the scandalous rags-to-riches-to-rags saga of silver baron Horace Tabor and his second wife, Baby Doe, first wife Augusta Tabor stands alone as a pioneering businesswoman with a generous heart and strength of character that is the story of women on the western frontier.
The 2010-11 Lecture Series schedule is continued HERE.
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