host: before the war of 1812 and this is trying unhistorical literature by historians such as william skelton. we call it a nonprofessional. its officer corps is mostly obtaining positions through political influence as a part of the american political history system is a consequence they are not professionals who went three body of education that were promoted by some system of merit. they don't perform very well. washington d.c. is the dearly attempts to invade canada don't go very well. it's my impression that canadian look at a great victory of american theaters. so after the war of 1812, you have a business that turns out to be a versus not a select and prepare officers to be in the army to be commanders basically. >> host: who spearheaded that change after 1812? >> guest: the crucial is william scott because his career begins before the war of 1812 assumption may not and extends until the opening of the civil war when he finally retires. jacob brown, a few other officers, the scot is most part. they become very much -- their agenda is very much to build a proper professional institution

skeltons were dancing and alls well. wyatt died in 1929. he was 80 years old. he outlived pretty much all of his peers and funeral was covered as a national news event. there's william s. hart and tom minks again together with william wilson and others. it was very much treated as passing of the old west. it was the dark days of the depression by now. she had a pretty good deal from. she had an oil well she and wyatt had signed over to her sister, her younger sister who was her best friend. then her sister died. why at the subsidize from the oil wells was taken away. by her niece and she was getting older, lonelier "barack obama: the stories" about the tome stone never ended. how was she is going to protect the legend? a sudden new player picture. that's lincoln else worth who was the american explorer of antarctica. he approached her with the idea of naming his boat, which was going to go to antarctica after wyatt. and he created a little shrine on the ship with eye glasses she gave him and a rifle and all of these things. it was a great idea. it was hard to imagine. it was like naming the space shuttle after him. i tracked the story in the "new york times" there w