of sorts for this presentation. i saw him. i'm not in my earliest youth in the retreat to jersey at the head of a small band or rather in its rear for he was always near the enemy. and his countenance and manner made an impression on me which time can never efface a deportment so far so dignified so exalted but yet so modest and composed i have never seen in any other person. thank you. from george washington to george w bush every sunday at 8pm at midnight eastern we feature the presidency our weekly series exploring the presidents their politics policies and legacies. you're watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span 3. the c-span cities tour travels the country exploring the american story since 2011. we've been to more than 200

communities across the nation like many americans our staff is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. next a look at one of our city's tour visits. the britain museum is is a very complex institution because not only are we an art museum, but we're all so history and we have natural history as well. we we lie on 628 acres of you know, beautiful ranch land here. so we you know, we interpret the ranch land we interpret the history we interpret the native american history. so there are a lot of a lot of wills to this institution, but basically our hope is to give people a view of why this area is important and why it deserves being preserved and and seen by, you know people from all over the world britain first comes to

the big horn mountains in 1910 when he comes hunting our legend says that that's when he decided he would own a ranch here, which he makes good on in 1923 basically the ranch the purchase of the ranch in 23 serves as the impetus for is collection and the range becomes his repository for his collecting. you know, he buys over 200 works by edward borin, you know the 35 works that you see of rice behind me of lots of hans clivers by the time he's through collecting. he dies rather prematurely in 1936. he has 650 works of art here and another 350 pieces of art of native american art the britain museum owns some very important pieces of western art one of them being the painting of the fight on the little bighorn by by frederick remington, and it's one of only two versions of that

fight. he did the other one as it will rock. it's in black and white as most of his illustrations are britain was a very wise collector. he could collect some great paintings in the black and white realm or the english pieces because they were illustrations so they had a lot less value than the color work at that time. bradford is very well educated. he's a yale graduate of the sheffield school of engineering 1904. helen is six years his elder. she never marries and upon his death. he leaves the ranch to hell and with the idea that upon her death. she's supposed to open it to the public so that they can see how they lived because even in the 30s. he understood that he wasn't living way most americans were living. so here we're in front of to honor the plane's nations, which is the britain's exhibition of

native american plains material, and it's really a testament to the importance of the gallatin family. the gallatins are magnificent patrons of the crow people and edith gallatin in particular is very treasured by the crow and over the course of about 40 years is adopted into the tribe eventually made in honorary pro medicine woman and the family benefits by receiving countless pieces of really important art, which you'll see behind us and which really formed the nucleus of this exhibition these elaborate headdresses which are you know 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 reverence that the the

tribe holds or held for edith gallatin in particular. this is a worship from the 1830s. it represents the height of that period of art within the blackfeet tribe. you can see that the owner has decorated it with some of his war deeds is important war deeds and those deeds are carried on again in the back. this this shirt probably made in the 1830s early 1830s 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. i our hope is that people will be able to come here and see different aspects of a various planes tribes the black feet the crow the lakota the northern cheyenne the apache in this museum all being very very

important to that whole cultural part of the history that 1860s back to the 1760s. that bison culture the buffalo culture the plains people, you know, that's that's the story we're telling within this exhibition with the gallatin's are important not only because of that marvelous planes indian collection that we've acquired but also they are integral in in bradford britton to ed borene. they meet him in new york. they bring him out here when they're building their house in 1911. so borene is is a california artist born in san leandro, california 1872. he's probably the most important cowboy artist of that area and to me because he actually was a cowboy, you know, remington and charlie russell were not cowboys by profession by any stretch of the imagination. where's borene really was and he worked on ranches throughout california and mexico participated in massive cattle drives, but was this marvelous

draftsman and you can see that illustrated in this drawing, you know, just a beautiful piece he was a master of ink india inc. and the brush and he becomes good friends with bad bradford britain and britain goes on to collect over 230 pieces of borene's work. so we're now in the britain house and this is you know, this is the original part of the institution. so for the first 50 years of the institutions history, this was the main thing to see here, but the house dates back to 1892 william moncrief and his brother malcolm billed the house and then william lives here with his wife until 1910 when he sells the biggest part of the ranch to the gallatin family and then in 1923 bradford britain 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 down in the wing when britain remodeled it in 1927. he made sure that every bedroom had its own bath. it's just a very ideal home for for a country. gentleman is really what it was. this was the repository of his art and this is where he came to relax and have a good time. it was sheridan. and in those days was the basically the heartbeat of the dude ranch industry and so there were lots of dude ranches and bradford had very good relations with those people and entertain them here the history of this area is what gives rise to that marvelous museum building what we would really like visitors to walk away from from the britain museum is a better picture of what the west was that you know, it wasn't all indian fights and cowboys herding cattle, but it was a time it was it was more refined than anybody really thought it ever was in this area. you know, it was a part of

history that most people have no idea ever existed out here. you can watch this and oth