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“True Grit” film Crawford Room Natrona County Public Library
As part of the festival, the Natrona County Public Library is proud to host a screening of one of the most culturally significant westerns ever made on Monday, September 28 at 6 p.m. This incredible book adaptation features an unlikely duo on a quest for vengeance.
Book Club True Grit Crawford Room Natrona County Public Library
As part of the festival, the Natrona County Public Library is proud to once again host the official book discussion, held on Tuesday, September 29 at 5 p.m. in the Crawford Room. We’ll be discussing “True Grit” by Charles Portis, a time-honored classic in the western genre. Considered by many to be essential western reading, this story of revenge and tenacity is a classic of American literature as a whole and boasts multiple highly regarded film adaptations.
Complimentary copies of the book will be available starting September 1 at the library’s second floor reference desk, while supplies last. The discussion is free and open to the public, and all are welcome—whether you’ve read the entire book or are just curious about the topic.
Sessions in The Dick and Marialyce Tobin Visual Arts Center
VC 104 and VC 119 (Gallery)
10:00 a.m. – Renee Steward “Wyoming Jade”
10:30 a.m. – Clint Gilchrist “The Making of a Beaver Top Hat”
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. – Russell Hawley “Fighting for Fossils: Cope, Marsh, and the Bone Wars”
12:00 p.m. – Jason Sondgeroth “Vantage Point: Where the Wild Things Are”
12:30 p.m. – Sydney Smith “Western History Center: A Case Study in Conservation”
12:35 p.m. – Patrick Amelotte “Hemingway and the Big Read”
12:45 p.m. – Luis Alza Leon “The Casper College Herbarium”
1:00 p.m. – John McCoy “Beavers – Ecosystem Engineers: Their decline and what we’re doing to bring them back”
1:30 p.m. – Hanz Olson, “Guiding Internships in GLAM: Finding the West in the Past, Present and Future”
9:30 a.m. – Information and the Western History Center: Into and Beyond a Western Archives
With Hanz Olson
This presentation will guide participants through a gallery of inquiry and inspiration, highlighting the methods used by the Western History Center to connect researchers with the American West. From books and boxed collections to digital repositories and exhibit spaces, attendees will experience the pulse of daily archival work before embarking on a specialized, small-group tour of their choice.
11 a.m. – Zak Pullen: “A Home for Steamboat” presentation
The artist will discuss the origin and creation of “A Home for Steamboat.” He will show the process from sketches through to finished paintings. The presentation will also cover how marketing and teamwork help make the book possible.
2 p.m. – “The American West and its place in what we know about dinosaurs.”
with JP Cavigelli
The role of the West in dinosaur studies cannot be understated. Paleontologists were among the first non-Indian Americans to follow the railroad into the American West, in search of dinosaurs and other fossils. Their finds gave birth to the public’s fascination with these beasts, and the discoveries continue to this day.
3:30 p.m. – “Cooking in the West” in the Gateway building, Room 224
Come learn about the history of and how to make unique foods from the history of the West with Rebecca and Geoff Hunt.
Noon – Indigenous Student Alliance presentation, in the Goodstein Foundation Library classroom
Come meet the Indigenous Student Alliance and hear about native food ways
1 p.m. – The Twang Gang performance
2 p.m-ish – Trails Center presentation and tour
Both of these sessions at The National Historic Trails Interpretive Center, 1501 North Poplar Street Casper, WY 82601.
Enjoy a fun hour of Western and folk music. Then, learn about the updates and renovations for the trails center and then enjoy a tour.