Utah Westerners

September Announcement for the Utah Westerners

September 7, 2012 at 10:22 am kenttschanz Leave a comment

A LEGACY OF VENERATION: RIVERS I HAVE KNOWN AND LOVED

STEPHENIE AMBROSE TUBBS

Each summer Stephenie Ambrose’s mother and father, historian and bestselling author, Stephen Ambrose, would pack up their five children and take them on “grand adventures” centered on specific historical events. They spent most of every summer on the road, car camping and traveling across the Great Plains while Stephen researched his latest book. They canoed and hiked entire swaths of America and learned what it meant to live from campground to campground like pioneers heading west.

Stephenie will detail some of the highlights of those memorable trips and the lessons she learned along the way. She particularly enjoys engaging younger audiences (she’ll make an exception in our case) in getting out of doors and in recognizing their personal roles in preserving and protecting special places for their children and their children’s children. National Historic Sites and Trails, National Parks, National Monuments and Wildlife Refuges all depend on a strong network of supporters and advocates if they are to continue to be maintained. She sees that our job is to teach our children how to venerate places and river systems. She feels strongly that we must convey to them what it means to be good stewards and how they are part of the legacy of taking care of the roots of our story as Americans.

Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs holds two degrees in history from the University of Montana and has written and spoken extensively on local and western history, the Lewis and Clark Expedition and Trail, and conservation and preservation of wild spaces in the West. Following in her father’s footsteps, Stephenie became a sought-after expert on the Trail and the Corps of Discovery. During the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (2003-2006) she traveled the entire trail speaking about various aspects of the expedition.

She was a researcher for Stephen Ambrose’s three-volume biography of Richard Nixon and went on to become a respected author in her own right, writing The Lewis and Clark Companion: An Encyclopedic Guide to the Voyage of Discovery and Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off and Other Lessons from the Lewis and Clark Trail (with Clay Straus Jenkinson). (See reviews that follow).

Stephenie currently serves as Co-Chair of the Lewis and Clark Trust, serves on the Board of the Montana Preservation Alliance and on the Advisory Council for the American Prairie Reserve.

For months we have been waiting with anticipation and excitement for this evening with Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from a popular and respected speaker and author and be sure to invite a guest.

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