. >> we are in that mansion that edward iversen built and it is now the home of that laramie plains museum, and it has been restored because for about 10 years it was vacant and people broken and vandalized the building and it has been a very long and fruitful effort to make it into this wonderful museum that we have here that highlights not only the ivinson family but issues from the past in wyoming as well. so edward was actually of all down in thewas born caribbean. he lived there for seven years. his father move they to manage a sugarcane plantation and he wound up in new york city in about 1852. while he was there, he met a young woman. she was 16 and he was 23, and they ran away to get married and they, like a lot of young folks, moved west to make their fame and fortune and wound up in laramie, wyoming. the family had been living in tennessee, and he decided to move the family to california. way he he got -- the thought he would get to california, he had a dry goods store and he sold all of it and got freight cars and put his stuff in them. as the union pacific was built across the

iversen's, jane and edward, and their adopted daughter maggie. they arrived on the first train in 1868 when there was nothing here. they made their fortune and built this house 24 years later. we have salvaged this house, and then here, we tell history like this ever jacked -- suffrage act. we have december 10, 18 69, the wyoming territorial legislature passing this law -- 1869, the wyoming territorial legislator passing this law. we had just become wyoming territory from dakota territory. we were here, and one of the reasons the legislature did it is they may needed to attract women's of the west. this was cowboys, railroad workers hammering out a railroad. we had the central pacific and from california, the union pacific, and it was. . fast and furious we had crazy living can -- was fast and furious. we had crazy living conditions. the legislature wanted to attract those women to become and be part of this adventure so they gave them full rights. rights, fulloting holding property rights, full political office rights. there's no other state tha

. >> we are in that mansion that edward iversen built and it is now the home of that laramie plains museumand it has been restored because for about 10 years it was vacant and people broken and vandalized the building and it has been a very long and fruitful effort to make it into this wonderful museum that we have here that highlights not only the ivinson family but issues from the pas

both of them to be quite separate from puppy new guinea well i'm just looking at an article which iversen where you've said that the question they're being asked is it's not so much yes or no it's do you want greater autonomy or do you want independence now if people go for that option or a majority go for that option of independence what happens then is it cut and dried or does it have to go back to the papa new guinea government for there in a ratification. it certainly does that that was also specified in the peace agreement that the referendum would be held and then the results of that referendum would be ratified by the government of p. and j. of the parliament of p. and g. i should say him but even the all that stamp so up to the referendum and before ratification whatever the result is there is to be consultation between the autonomous government of broken hill and the element of p. and j. the argument as it always is with independence and i'm thinking even you know when for example scotland voted whether it wanted to split from the u.k. and other such ones it's about whether they

. >> iversen carter, thank you so much. >> we want to hear what you're reading. send us yourlist on facebook, twitter or instagram at book tv . >> now on cspan2's book tv, moretelevision for serious readers . >> good evening everybody. we've got to try it one more time. i know you have greatenergy, we saw you coming in . this looks like a high-energy group so let's try it one more time. good evening, that the energy we know you have. my name is george, i'm program director at the commonwealth club , on behalf of all of us i want towelcome you , thank you for coming down to tonight's terrific program with charles schwab in conversation with adam