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Cancelled Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium

Event Type:

Genealogy, History

Age Group:

Adult, All
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Event Details

To ensure everyone’s health and safety, Pikes Peak Library District made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium. We extend our gratitude to all the speakers for the time and energy they put in over the last year, and are very sorry that the event will not be able to take place.

Given the evolving situation surrounding COVID-19, we are working closely with local agencies to prepare, plan, and respond as a community, and will continue to provide updates on the Library’s response at ppld.org/COVID-19.

We look forward to another great Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium next year, where we will be commemorating the Colorado Springs Sesquicentennial.

The 17th Annual Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium: Iron Rails, Wagon Trails, & Snail Mail

** PLEASE MAKE A SEPARATE RESERVATION FOR EACH ATTENDEE **

Saturday, June 6, 2019, 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

8:30 a.m. Doors Open at East Library

9:00 a.m. Welcome & Opening Remarks

9:15 – 10:45 a.m. ​
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.