Lewis and Clark speakers set for Sunday, Tuesday
Chadron State College's Dorset Graves Lecture Series will present two speakers about Lewis and Clark next week. The first will be Kira Gale of Omaha, whose topic is “The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis: Murder or Suicide?” Gale’s presentation will be on the second floor of the Reta King Library at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 6.
The second presentation will be by Dr. Catherine Lockwood, CSC professor of geography. She will present “The Landscape of the Northern Great Plains from Fort Mandan to the Yellowstone River: Lewis and Clark, Then and Now” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, in room 108 of the library.
Gale describes herself as an author, editor, researcher, publisher and blogger of all things Lewis and Clark. She is the author of "Lewis and Clark Road Trips: Exploring the Trail Across America," which won the 2006 Midwest Independent Publishers Award. She also was the 2007 recipient of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation's Meritorious Achievement Award.
Lockwood specializes in cultural ecology, settlement landscape, and rural issues. She said the journal entries of Lewis and Clark are excellent regional geographies. Their journal entries and maps of the expedition from Fort Mandan to the Yellowstone River are the basis for her descriptive comparison of Lewis and Clark’s observations of 1804 and 1805 with the current landscape of the northern Great Plains.
The lecture series is presenting speeches about Lewis and Clark this spring to coincide with the “Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country” exhibit that is on display in the library through April 18.
Category: Campus News, Graves Lecture Series