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COWBOY IN THE MAKING: WILL JAMES AND THE POPULAR WEST
Hazlewood Lecture Hall
September 8, 2009   5:30 pm
Lecture by WT professor Bonney MacDonald, Ph.D.  A Canadian, an Easterner, a greenhorn – Will James wasn’t born to the West and, yet, like a number of other seekers from the East, he became not only an accomplished hand but a writer and artist who helped invent the early 20th-century figure of the cowboy.  His fiction and illustrations, as well as his fictionalized autobiography paint a vivid picture of the life, the horses and the cowboys of the open range.  Among the questions to be addressed:  what drew James West;  what about horses and the West did he need to learn in his process of adaptation; what did he get right; and what has his legacy been? 

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“SMOKY”
Hazlewood Lecture Hall
September 19   1:30 pm
Watch the 1966 movie inspired by the Will James novel.

PANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING
Featuring
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS IN A DIGITAL WORLD
Hazlewood Lecture Hall
September 28, 2009       5:30-7:30 pm
Demonstrating the use of social networks and the museum’s latest technology.

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