there started out in my mind that he has a huge covert action program. so this is very much, on iraq i did have a discussion in 2000. i better not mail the year to close and we will know who it is. it was one of the top people, seventh floor at langley. and i said you know, when we leave it's going to fall apart. this is a time when you have the, separators ago, to put plumbing and. i'm hopeful we did. but i never ever felt that this wasn't going to end anything better than bad news. there was a 2010 op-ed in "the wall street journal" to called the ca solution, and it said we're leaving and we better have infrastructure in there. i hope i haven't minced words today.

>> are you throwing me off? i've been disinvited. >> we have a little gift for y you. >> oh, god, the pin. >> they are for you, peter. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> you are watching tv, television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see here online apple tv.org. >> while visiting cheyenne, wyoming, with the help of our local cable partner charter, we toured the sites in old cheyenne with lori van pelt, author of "capital characters of old cheyenne." >> i focus on the air from the transcontinental railroad, the building of that, 1860s into

the early 1900 a little bit beyond that. i wanted show a cross-section of some of the interesting people who were here and some the things that they did. i think there are many misconceptions about wyoming's history and that's what makes it fun to be historian in wyoming. i think they don't realize how significant wyoming is in the nation's history, and they don't realize that when national women have the right to go during territorial days, and i was quite controversial. and they don't realize how influential wyoming can be, and people from wyoming are not just old west type people. you meet some of those people which is fine and they're very intelligent and smart, but there were also some political influences that wyoming may come in wyoming people made, and are still making. we are standing in front of the wyoming state capital which is an important building in the state's history, of course. also it is a significant because

us del rio was the first woman elected to a state office in the nation. she became wyoming superintendent of the construction. this occurred in 1894 and even though it was only about four years after wyoming quality state, became a stay, she felt that women shouldn't all the governors -- women should have a right to vote and equal pay. she was a proponent of that. but she also had another significance but in 1898 president mckinley appointed as the first female superintendent of indian schools and does it very important distinction in the air. she wrote a textbook, a course of study for indian schools and she traveled about 65,000 miles during her first three years in office and she traveled by boat board, on horseback, not at all like the travel we consider today. so she was an amazing person that we.

also she was kind of quirky and she loved to dress up. so when she attended present mckinley's and i go she wore a thousand dollar debt and a $50 had. she always loved fancy has. to contrast the amount of money that cause, herself was about $2000. we are standing in front of the wyoming supreme court building that used to be the state library building. it no longer is. it's significant, of course, and it has an interesting person involved with it. his name was willis band of endeavor -- willis then the vendor. he was a powerful attorney in 1897 air. he significant in the states history because he was also one of the people who defended the

cattlemen in the johnson county were instant of 1892. and he was a supreme court justice for wyoming. and later in 1910 he was appointed to the united states supreme court and he was a just as there. in 1910-1932, and he was the first, and i think the only, supreme court justice from the state of wyoming. nathaniel robertson was a carriage maker in cheyenne, and he originally came from scotland, and he was one of the finest -- he billed himself as one of the finest carriage and buggy makers and wagon makers in the area. and in 1882 he partner with george kaufman and they spend into farm equip and also. one of the carriages he built was for alexander swan of the swan land and cattle company and that was a large ranging kids are here in this area. he built a stanhope track.

it speaks to the elegance of the air. this was the way that people traveled more and their buddies in carriages, and they had to make sure that their wheels were properly attached. it just wasn't a look at form of travel. >> the first book i wrote, i was new to the can and want to learn more about the county's history so followed the same pattern but i wanted to learn more about cheyenne and the people who. i grew up in western nebraska just a stone's throw from the wyoming border here, and the boys been fascinated with cheyenne and the west, and probably that old cowgirl misconception of the frontier people, but they're very nice, very genuine and many are very intelligent and quite highly educated, and that's true in history. i think people, that's a misconception people might have about one. today, the people make the history of a place and the people were so fascinating to me. they made significant

contributions to wyoming as a territory and has the state. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to cheyenne, wyoming, and in many other cities visited by our local content vehicles, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week.

look for these titles and book stores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org