All lectures begin at 6 PM and will be followed by a reception in the lobby of the Museum of the Rockies.

Claire Vaye Watkins, American author and faculty member at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico

  • Monday, October 2, 2017, Hager Auditorium, Museum of the Rockies
  • An Evening with Claire Vaye Watkins
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  • A book-signing will precede the lecture at 5:30 PM. Doors open at 5:15 PM.

Michael Punke, American writer and former Deputy United States Trade Representative and U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland

  • Monday, October 16, 2017, Hager Auditorium, Museum of the Rockies
  • Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo and the Birth of the New West
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  • A book-signing will precede the lecture at 5:30 PM. Doors open at 5:15 PM.

Rosalyn LaPier, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, College of Humanities and Sciences, University of Montana

  • Monday, November 6, 2017, Hager Auditorium, Museum of the Rockies
  • From Prairies to the Atomic Age: Family and Farming on the Blackfeet Reservation
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  • Doors open at 5:30 PM.

Jeremy Johnston, Tate Endowed Chair of Western History, Goppert Curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum and Managing Editor of the Papers of William F. Cody at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming.

  • Monday, November 13, 2017, Hager Auditorium, Museum of the Rockies
  • The Pioneer, The Conservationist and The Preservationist: How Buffalo Bill Cody, Gifford Pinchot and Horace Albright Shaped Modern Land-Use in the American West
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  • Doors open at 5:30 PM.

Andrew Hansen, Professor, Department of Ecology and Director of the Landscape Biodiversity Lab, Montana State University

  • Monday, December 4, 2017, Hager Auditorium, Museum of the Rockies
  • Taking the Pulse of Greater Yellowstone: Successes and Challenges in Sustaining a Wildland Ecosystem in the 21st Century
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  • Doors open at 5:30 PM.