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interpret the history, we interpret the native american history. there are a lot of wheels to this institution. basically our hope is to give people a view of why this area is important and why it deserves being preserved and seen by people from all over the world. brinton verse comes to the big horn mountains in 1910. that's when he decided to build a ranch here, which he makes good on in 1923. the ranch, the purchase of the ranch in 1923 serves as the impetus for this collection and the ranch becomes the repository for his collecting. he buys over 200 works by edward boreen, the 35 works you see of rice behind me. throughime he is

collecting -- he dies rather prematurely in 1936 and has 650 works of art here. and another 350 pieces of native american art. the brinton museum owns some very important pieces of western art, one of them being the painting of the fight on the little bighorn by frederick grahamington. it is a one of only two versions of that fight. it is in black and white as most of his illustrations are. brinton was a wise collector. he could collect great paintings in the black-and-white realm because they were illustrations. they had a lot less value than the color work of that time. bradford is very well educated, a yale graduate from 1904. helen is six years his elder and she never married and upon his

death, he leaves the ranch to helen with the idea that upon her death, she is supposed to open it to the public so they can see how they lived. even in the 1930's, he understood he was not living the way most americans were living. here we are in front of the plain's nation which is the brinton exposition of native lains materials. it's a testament to the importance of the patrons of the native people and they are treasured by the crow and over the course of 40 years, it's adopted into the tribe and eventually made an honorary crow medicine woman. the family benefits by receiving countless pieces of really important crow art of which you

will see behind us and which really form the nucleus of this exhibition. these elaborate headdresses which are very important and very spiritual within the crow tribe, those are not things that would be given to just anybody. so it shows the reference that the tribe held for edith gallatin in particular. this is from the 1830's. it represents the height of that period of art in the blackfeet tribe. you can see the owner has decorated it with some of his war deeds, and those deeds are carried on again in the back. this shirt probably made in the early 1830's is collected in 1865 by a british army officer and eventually finds its way

back to america and we were fortunate enough to be able to acquire it at that point. our hope is that people can come here and see different aspects of various plains tribes, the blackfeet, the crow, the lakota, the northern cheyenne, the apache in this museum of being very important to that whole cultural part of the history, the 1860's back to the 1760's, that bison culture, the buffalo culture of the planes people -- plains people. that's the story we are telling. the gallatins are important not only because of the indian collection that we have acquired in also they are integral introducing britain -- brinton to boreen. they bring him out here when they are building their house in

1911 so he is a california artist born in 1872 in california. he is probably most important cowboy artist of that era because he actually was a cowboy. remington and charlie russell were not cowboys by profession. by any stretch of the imagination. whereas boree really was and he workedn on ranches throughout california and mexico and participated in massive cattle drives. he was a marvelous draftsmen and you can see that illustrated in this drawing. it's a beautiful piece and he was a master of india ink and the brush and becomes good friends with bradford brinton goes on to collect over 230 pieces of his work. we are now in the brinton house. this is the original part of the institution. for the first 50 years of the institution's history, this was the main thing to see here. the house dates back to 1892, william moncrief and his brother

built the house and william lives here with his wife until 1910 when he sells the biggest part of the ranch to the gallatin family. in 1923, bradford brinton buys the house and he puts it into this shape in 1928 after a remodel. it has five bedrooms in it including bradford's big bedroom. when brinton remodeled it in 1927, he made sure every bedroom had its own bath. it's a very ideal home for a country gentleman is what it was. this was the repository of his art. this is where he came to relax and have a good time. sheridan in those days was basically the heartbeat of the dude ranch industry so there were lots of dude ranches and bradford had very good relations with those people and entertained them here. the history of this area is what gives rise to that marvelous museum building.

what we would like visitors to walk away with from the museum is a better picture of what the west was. it was not all indian fights and cowboys herding cattle. it was more refined than anybody really thought it ever was in this area. it was a part of history that most people have no idea ever existed. >> the c-span cities tour is exploring the american story. join us the first and third weekends of each month as we take book tv in american history tv on the road. to watch videos from any of the places we have been, go to c-span.org/cities tour and follow us on twitter at c-span cities tour it next, we continue our look at sheridan, wyoming as we visit a poor shoemaker --

horseshoe maker. >> as you drive around in here, you can see the culture is western, we don't have many people and a lot of horses did more courses than people in wyoming, i am convinced about it -- convinced of that. with that comes a ferrier. a ferrier is a big piece in a large puzzle, vets, trainers, and ferrier's they keep the horses moving forward. , youut a qualified ferrier will have lameness problems, you won't be able to compete, and most of all your horse won't be able to move.

it is your blacksmith but a concentrated blacksmith. i have about 16 head of horses we are training and we have spent a lot of money with local ferriers. my girlfriend came up and told me about a college program they had at sheridan college. some courses start at 15 weeks and some are a year and a half. mine was a 15 week course out of sheridan, and for the next year, year and a half, i wrote around -- rode around and started getting some of my own client horses. now i am full-time supporting my own place and my lifestyle is shoeing horses. i think a lot of people are trying to reinvent the wheel. you can go back and read books, and i have took some those cabinets that show you from the 1800s to the early 1900s,

shoeing, the only thing we've changed is we have a process to make nicer tools that makes crisper lines. but we are so using the same methods. that is a coal fire, technically a coke fire. but it is coal. that anvil is 200 years old. nothing has changed, really. you can try to reinvent the wheel but you go back to basics and that is what horse shoeing was founded on. when your hand making shoes, you shoe for two hours. 5-6 heat in about the fire, that's when you bring it out. dealing with the horses, you have to do it every day. i think a lot of ferriers are losing horsemanship, which is

what get you around the horses and lets you get along with them, that's a good layman term. job, learningour to be around horses and not get in a fight with them. if you get in a fight with a horse that weighs 900 pounds more than you, it's probably going to be a long day and you might not get up very well the next morning. with horses, ferriers. you can have a horse without a ferrier. it is a huge part of the culture. us thate 6, 7, 8 of just service sheridan and we still can't cover all of the horses. with the western lifestyle and riding horses comes a ferrier. without the ferrier skills we have in these towns, nobody could do anything, you would just be stuck with horses with a sore feet and broken out and can travel right and don't hold up over time.

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significant women in revolutionary war america. when they met, or in -- warren was a mentor to adams, but adams ended up in the white house with her husband john. >> this is a really special year for the augello adams birthplace. it is the year of "remembering abigail." 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of her death. we had a big kick off at the statehouse and we have another big commemoration in november of this year, which march -- marks the 275th anniversary of her birth. we've been joining with other organizations to honor her legacy and celebrate her life and legacy. we have formed an organization, l.org and a number of us are