American West Program Presents A Trail To Disaster: John Charles Fremont's Expeditions Into The Rocky Mountains
Monday, June 15, 1998
FORT COLLINS--The 21st American West Program at Colorado
State University will feature a presentation on a Western
explorer's unsuccessful expeditions into the San Luis Valley and
the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado in the mid-1800s.
The program, free and open to the public, begins at 7:30
p.m. June 16 in Room 113 Natural Resources Building at Colorado
State.
Patricia Joy Richmond, historian and teacher from Crestone,
Colo., will discuss the fourth and fifth expeditions of John
Charles Fremont, an explorer who was seeking a route through the
Rocky Mountains for a transcontinental railroad. Fremont lost a
third of the men in his party to hunger and cold on one of those
expeditions.
Richmond joins a series of speakers visiting campus this
summer to explore Western expansion under the program's theme,
"Manifest Destiny and the West to 1850." Other highlights of the
program include a discussion on the Alamo, a presentation on
Manifest Destiny and the rise of modern journalism and forgotten
episodes of the U.S.-Mexican War.
All programs are free and open to the public and begin at
7:30 p.m. in Room 113 Natural Resources Building.
In conjunction with the American West Program, the summer
exhibit of the Curfman Gallery in the Lory Student Center will
feature the artwork of William Henry Jackson.
A complete schedule of events follows.
* June 16 - "Trail to Disaster: John Charles Fremont's Fourth
Expedition into the San Juan Mountains of Southern Colorado,"
Patricia Joy Richmond, historian and teacher from Crestone.
* June 23 - "Manifest Destiny and the Rise of Modern Journalism,"
Charles Rankin, editor of Montana, The Magazine of Western
History from the Montana Historical Society.
* June 30 - "The Alamo: The Mexican View," Daniel Martinez,
historian for the National Park Service.
* July 7 - "Conquest of New Mexico and the Invasion of Chihuahua,
Mexico: A Forgotten Episode of the U.S.-Mexican War," Neil
Mangum, superintendent of Little Big Horn Battlefield National
Monument in Montana.
* July 14 - "Manifest Destiny and Indian Removals," Valerie
Mathes, professor in the department of social science at City
College of San Francisco.
* July 21 - "Los Capitalistas: New Mexican Merchants and the
Santa Fe Trade," Susan Calafate Boyle, independent historian from
Fort Collins.
* July 28 - "The Western Hero and Manifest Destiny - Boone,
Crockett and Carson," Paul Hutton, history professor at the
University of New Mexico.
For more information on the American West Program, call
Harry Rosenberg in the history department at 491-5230.
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