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Understanding 9/11tv American Frontier Book Collection CSPAN February 4, 2017 9:48am-10:01am EST
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when you have artwork, you get the man. he is bringing with him, the experiences. he brings all of that. it is important to understand that and appreciate what is in he artwork itself. >> to see more world war i combat art and to learn more about the artists you can visit the archive blog - the unwritten ecord. >> you're watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook at c-span history. all weekend, american history tv is featuring fresno, california. c-span city's tour staff recently vivid many sites showcasing its history. in spanish, fresno means ash
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tree, the city got its name from early spanish explorers due to the abundance of ash trees in the area. learn more about fresno all weekend here on american history v. >> well when i was a kid, the public library consigned to the children's room in the basement of the library and the only non-fiction books they had were books on the american west. and since i've always been a non-fiction person, i got -- i read everything that i could there on the american west primarily in native-americans. over the years, the 1950's, when i was growing up was a time when you had all the movies at the theater, most of them were cowboy movies and cowboys programs were on tv. so you were sort of -- when i was a kid, you were saturated with the american west. and i just fell in love with it.
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and then in 1993, i begin traveling to the west and i just fell in love with it. and i quickly became -- came to understand that there was much more to the west than just cowboys and indians fights. just the art tris of the landscape, the culture, the history. it was a quite different west than what i had learned from hollywood all those years. and i learned that there were not only native-americans and angelo americans, but i learned that there were asian-americans, african-americans, hispanic americans, all contributing to the culture and that the west was in fact far more diverse in many ways than the land some of the places east of the mississippi river.
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first of all, i'm going to talk about some books i purchased about african-americans in the west and then i'm going to talk about hispanic west and then finally talk about the books on native-american culture. we forget that african-americans were in the west. they were brought to the slaves in the west first in texas and of the indian territory. when they left the southeast and removed to oklahoma, took their slaves with them. and so african-americans have always been in the west. they didn't just show up suddenly. after the civil war, more african-americans left the south , performed communities in the west. ey were referred to as exoddist, the word from the book in the bible. most recently, i bought a fwrook the university of oklahoma press
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which was just published on the town in kansas. and this is now a state park in kansas. this is one of the many all-black communities that were formed as they try to find a new life of freedom and a place in the american west. if you watched the cowboys movies or if you watched the cowboy programs, 100%, almost 00% of the cowboys are anglos. in fact, over 30% of the cowboys in the west were either african-american, hispanic-american and even native-american. out here east of fresno, east of -- joining community in clovis, they hired many native-americans to run their sheep and cattle.
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so this is something that you don't see in the cowboys movies. but there were black cowboys and this book, "black cowboys of the that period.vers and when you see many of these cowboys, they look just like, dress like were like -- did everything that their white counterparts did. but not only were they cowboys, they were martials and lawmen. for example, this is a biography vast reeds who was a very famous martial in the indian territory under the famous author in arkansas. and he is noted as an outstanding lawman of his time. this is a picture of vast reeds.
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vast was tough. vast didn't worry about sparing himself in catching outlaws. and he caught many an outlaw that was brought to justice. when we talk about native-americans, even though i have purchased material and found in indian wars per se, i thought it was very forpt buy books on native-american culture and special material culture. this book i like to call lecture narratives, you can see the various part of the nave peoples. >> what kind of art? >> this is basically them sketching in notebooks or in pieces of paper they would find. they were describing because they did not have a written language.
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they were actually describing battle scenes. for what ere would be actually was going on. even before the reservation period, if native-americans were to find a notebook or something in which they could write on, they would do ledger art. and for much of native-american history, we have this art either in their winter counts or in these note notebooks. for the battle of little big horn, there are quite a few -- we had a few lecture books which describe the battle and what happened especially after the battle. these are two of my favorite books. -- on native-american culture. this book is entitled "american
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indian horse mask." and you can see the detective masks that they put on their horses. not only did they paint their horses, but they have these horse masks. here are some example of a more modern horse mask. but in here, in this book, you can find more traditional horse mask from the native-american tree and before the reservation. each horse was a warrior horse. they specifically painted each of their horses in a specific way given their medicine. this book, the last thing i'm going to show you called bridles of the americas and this covers indiana silver. and this is just an example of the various types of native-american silver that was used. in the -- and the native-americans had quite extensive troud routes between each other. you would find items that were
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made on the washington coast a thousand miles inland in montana among the great plains. there was an extensive trading routes which again, we sort of dismiss because we sort of reduced native-americans to warring indians which unfortunately was not always the case. the history of the east tends to be more white, more anglo, white anglo, more protestant in its initial story. the history of the west is more reflective because from the beginning, it is more multi-cultural in all its dimensions. and that is an important thing for americans to realize in that everybody, hispanic, african-americans, native-americans, asian-americans, native-americans, they've all contributed to the history and development of the west and
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shaped the west. >> this weekend, we're featuring the history of fresno, california, together with our comcast cable partners. learn more about fresno and other stops on our cities tour at c-span.org/citiestour. you're watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> this weekend on c-span2's book tv, we're featuring the writers festival from california. today our coverage starts at 1:30 p.m. eastern. >> to me, diseases are verbs and not announce. you're cancering, you're heart diseasing, you're also i'ming. one doesn't get cancer. it's something the body does. >> barbara boxer. >> and they said resign, resedin. you're a disgrace. tried to do was
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find common ground. if you want to twist it, twist it. >> panel scounges the state of america's hospitals. life and politics in florida and the environment and lawrence wright. >> because i've lived a lot in the middle east and if there's one less son you learn from spending a long time in the middle east is that things can always get worse. >> on sunday, beginning at 3:00 p.m. eastern, authors dennis prager. >> make a list of things that you think would make you happy and if they all arrive, you would be temporarily happy. >> dr. gary small, director of the ucla longevity center. >> and if you can achieve your brain health, then you're going to be able to remember and think about all those decisions you need to make every day to keep your brain healthy. >> and a panel discussion on national security. watch the writers festival today
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n book tv. >> you're watching american history tv. all week every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook at c-span history.>> a panelist of histors compare the first 100 days of previous presidents and discuss priorities for the new trump administration. some of the issues they talk about include international poverty, civil rights, the economy, and immigration. this discussion took place at the american historical association's annual meeting in denver. it is just over an hour and a half. professor yang: i'm anand yang from the university of washingtion. when we conceived about this, about a year or so ago, we thought of it as an opportunity for historians to share their expertise with the new president-elect.
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