Tuesday, April 7, 2015
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (MT)
Library Building, Room 148
Event Type
(none)
Contact
Brent Roberts
657-1655
Department/Org.
University Relations
Link
https://ems.msubillings.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=3037
Montana State University Billings will host a lecture series in April titled, “Clark on the Yellowstone” featuring MSUB faculty from the history department and Friends of Pompeys Pillar examining Clark’s two-week journey through the Yellowstone Valley during the return voyage of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the mid-summer of 1806.
Sponsored by the MSUB Library, the Office of the Provost and the Friends of Pompey’s Pillar, all lectures are free and open to the public, with presentations beginning at 6:30 p.m., in the Library building room 148.
April 7: Dr. Keith Edgerton, MSUB History Department: “Clark’s 1806 Summer Odyssey on the Yellowstone: Two weeks that altered Montana’s history for the next two centuries”
April 14: Dr. Tom Rust, MSUB History Department: “A ‘…tolerably good…’ Campsite: The Clark Canoe Camp
April 21: John LeVar, Friends of Pompeys Pillar Board of Directors and Jeff Kitchens, manager of Pompeys Pillar National Monument: “History of the Pompeys Pillar Site & ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Pomp?’”