On the evening of November 1, 2023, in the Hager Auditorium of the Museum of the Rockies, The Ivan Doig Center for the Study of the Lands and Peoples of the North American West hosted a conversation between historians, Betsy Gaines Quammen and Leisl Carr Childers, addressing issues raised in Dr. Quammen’s second book, True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America. Her earlier book is American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God and Public Lands in the West.

Janet Ore, Director of the Ivan Doig Center, began the program by introducing The Wallace Stegner Chair of Western American Studies, Mark Fiege.

You can hear our interview with Betsy Gaines Quammen about her earlier book, AMERICAN ZION: CLIVEN BUNDY, GOD AND PUBLIC LANDS IN THE WEST, via this link: https://forthright.media/2020/03/18/betsy-gaines-quammen-american-zion-cliven-bundy-god-public-lands-in-the-west/

              Betsy Gaines Quammen

          Leisl Carr Childers