American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming

American Heritage Center
Eleventh Annual Symposium 

September 18-20, 2002
University of Wyoming

Owen Wister, American Heritage Center collections

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

6:00 p.m. -- Registration and Reception (AHC Lobby and Loggia, Centennial Complex, 2nd floor)

6:30-7:30 p.m. --  Focusing the Image (AHC Stock Grower's Room, Centennial Complex, 2nd floor)

Moderator:  Eric Sandeen, American Studies Program (UW)

• "The Wister Moment" in Western American Studies"—Christine Bold, University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada).

• "The Double Bind: Illustrating The Virginian"—Stephen Tatum, University of Utah 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. -- Registration (AHC Lobby, Centennial Complex, 2nd floor)

9:00-10:30 a.m. -- Gone West (AHC Stock Growers' Room, Centennial Complex, 2nd floor)

Moderator:  Carol Bowers, American Heritage Center (UW)

• "Creating a Visual West: The Stereographs of C. R. Savage and A. J. Russell" —Daniel M. Davis, Utah State University

• "Owen Wister and Theodore Roosevelt: The Mythic Cowboy Comes to Life" —Doug A. Mischler, University of Nevada-Reno

• "Wrangling the Medicine Bow: John H. Mullison and the First Decade of a National Forest" —Jane Nelson, University of Wyoming

Owen Wister, American Heritage Center collections

10:30-10:45 a.m. -- Break

10:45 a.m.-Noon -- Public Art and Public Image at the University of Wyoming (AHC Stock Growers' Room, Centennial Complex, 2nd floor)

Moderator:  Kim Winters, American Heritage Center (UW)

• Durand Duin, Kathy Evertz, and Jamie Pourier, University of Wyoming

Noon-1:00 p.m. -- Lunch Break (pre-registered buffet lunch in Centennial Complex Restaurant/Meeting Room, 1st floor)

Photo from the Owen Wister Papers, American Heritage Center collections

1:00-1:30 p.m. -- Reflections on Owen Wister and The Virginian by John W. Stokes, Grandson  AHC Stock Growers' Room, Centennial Complex, 2nd floor)

1:30-3:00 p.m. -- War and the Western Novel (AHC Stock Growers' Room, Centennial Complex, 2nd floor)

Moderator:  Colin Keeney, English Department (UW)

• "Mary O'Hara: War-Torn Wyoming and the Western Novel"—Melanie Francis, University of Wyoming

• "Re-made Marian: From Jack Schaefer's Homeland Defender in Shane to Hollywood's Cold War Hysteric"—Sheila Ruzycki O'Brien, University of Idaho

3:00-3:15 p.m. -- Break

3:15-5:00 p.m. -- Panning for Facts (AHC Stock Growers' Room, Centennial Complex, 2nd floor)

Moderator:  Phil Roberts, History Department (UW)

• "Owen Wister's The Virginian 100th Anniversary Edition" — Mary Robinson, Buffalo Bill Historical Center

• "Be As Faithful As A Scientist: Owen Wister, Ernest Hemingway, and Rhetorical Truth"— Cliff Boyer, University of Oregon

• "Questions We Should Be Asking About the Dime-Novel Western"—T. J. Roberts, University of Connecticut

Photo from the Owen Wister Papers, American Heritage Center collections

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

8:00-9:00 a.m. -- Registration (AHC Lobby, 2nd floor) 

9:00-10:30 a.m. -- Real People, Real Places (AHC Stock Growers' Room, Centennial Complex, 2nd floor)

Moderator:  Tamsen Hert, Coe Library (UW)

• "The Virginian: A Horseman and a Hotel of the Plains"—Julianne Couch, University of Wyoming

• "Making Sense of the Senseless: Arizona's Pleasant Valley War in History and Fiction"—Daniel Justin Herman, Central Washington University

• "Indians, White Settlers, and a Bridge Ablaze: History, Culture, and Identities of Mark Soldier Wolf and Harvey Brannan in Fremont County, Wyoming, in 2002—Chavawn Kelley, University of Wyoming

10:30-10:45 p.m. -- Break

10:45 a.m.-Noon -- Shifting Sands in the Twentieth Century (AHC Stock Growers' Room, Centennial Complex, 2nd floor)

Moderator:  William H. Moore, History Department (UW)

• "Hemingway, Wister, and 'the Grand Old Gospel of True Americanism--Manhood, Broad, and Simple and Sincere' " —Jeffrey Stacey, University of Waterloo

• "The Virginian Meets Matt Shepard:  Myth-Making in the West" —D. Claudia Thompson, University of Wyoming

Noon-2:00 p.m. -- Luncheon, Keynote Address, and Booksigning

James Galvin, "Reading from His Work" (UW Union, Yellowstone Ballroom) 

Introduction by Eric Sandeen, American Studies Program (UW)

2:00-3:15 p.m. -- Cultures, Clashes, and Other Voices (AHC Stock Growers' Room, Centennial Complex, 2nd floor)

Moderator:  Kim Winters, American Heritage Center (UW)

• "Narrating Colonial History: Indigenous Erasure and Appropriation in Owen Wister's The Virginian"—Jordana Finnegan, University of Oregon

• "The Jewish Diaspora of the American West: Texas Rabbi Henry Cohen, The Galveston Movement, and the Re-mapping of American Jewry" —Kimberly A. Hamlin, University of Texas-Austin (cancelled)

Photo from the Owen Wister Papers, American Heritage Center collections

3:15-3:30 p.m. -- Break

3:30-5:00 p.m. -- The Vista from 100 Years (AHC Stock Growers' Room, Centennial Complex, 2nd floor)

Moderator:  Frieda Knobloch, American Studies Program (UW)

• "When You Call Me That, Smile: What if Wister Were a Woman?"—Melody Graulich, Utah State University

• "Branding Tropes and the Political Economy of Sex in Early Popular Westerns by Women"—Victoria Lamont, University of Waterloo

• "Alternative Families in the American West: Wister, Cather, Harte, and Queers"—Christopher F. Packard, New York University

5:00-6:00 p.m. -- Gallery Walk (with John Dorst) (UW Art Museum, Centennial Complex)

6:00-8:00 p.m. -- Opening Reception for "Framing the Wild: Animals on Display" (AHC Loggia, 2nd floor)

John Dorst, curator: co-organized by the UW Art Museum, the UW American Studies Program, and the National Museum of Wildlife Art.

Framing the Wild: Animals on Display is a collaborative exhibition with the UW American Studies Program and the National Museum of Wildlife Art.  The exhibit is currently on display in the UW Art Museum, Centennial Complex, through December 23, 2002.  The exhibit will be on display at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming, January 17-May 25, 2003.

The display of wild animals is such a pervasive feature of modern culture that it is rarely given a second thought.  Everything from beer advertising and sports logos to animal theme parks, and from the elk trophy in the local tavern to the Discovery Channel nature documentary take for granted the appropriateness of and public interest in the display of wild creatures.  This exhibit challenges visitors to step back from such normally unexamined behavior to consider some of the formal conventions, historical factors, and cultural (perhaps even moral) implications involved in wild animal display.

The Virginian Exhibit in Coe Library

The University of Wyoming Coe Library is currently featuring an exhibit, The Virginian, 100 Years, 1902-2002.  The exhibit features books from the UW Libraries Hebard Collection with photographs from the Wister Collection and a foreign book edition courtesy of the American Heritage Center's Toppan Rare Books Library.  Books featured in the exhibit include an original edition of The Virginian as well as several later editions and some foreign language editions.  This exhibit is on display on the first floor of the Coe Library.

American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, P.O. Box 3924, Laramie, WY 82071.  Phone:  307.766.4114,  Fax:  307.766.5511, E-mail: shelstad@uwyo.edu.  Copyright © University of Wyoming, 2002.  Created on May 23, 2002.  Last modified on November 19, 2002.