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Thank you. Bruce. Hello my name is mark levine. Im an affiliated scholar. Program today is called jack london, apostle of the American West. And its being coupon sorried by Stanford University library ris. As bruce was describing, the center is dedicated to advancing scholarship and public presentation on the past, future of Western North america. This is very appropriate pan ford for them. And the University Library comprehensive range both digital formats in support of research and construction here at stanford. Today we ingnaw grate a new center. It is designed to place a spotlight on the humanities in the American West. Arts west offers the stanford community, innovative public programming on the writ ....
Being a cowboy. He was working for different cattle rampnches and he absoluty loved it. He knew it was his way of life. There was something invented in the 1870s that revolutionized cattle ranching in the western United States. That was barbed wire. What you used to have is the open cattle ranches. You would actually have somebody who could get cattle, have them wandering all over the place, and eventually take them to market. With barbed wire, all the people who actually had land claims would put fences around their land. That that almost was the end of the open cattle range. But theres a few people who really, really loved cattle ranching and who didnt want to let them stop them and they didnt have the huge ranches that like we see in southern texas. What they did is they came out to padre island. What made it ideal for cattle ranches, even if you didnt have the barbed wire, was that you didnt need a fence for most of it. You had ....
And because of that, they had saw mills and they would cut their ties, brought them down from the mountains. Pas the Union Pacific coming from the east had to hand cut their ties wherever they could find wood. Not a lot available in many of the areas so they would split them. You can see how they would cut them and bring them out when they could. The Transcontinental Railroad was happening at the end of the victorian age, as you were going into the industrial age. And it was a perfect time for the United States because when that Transcontinental Railroad was completed, it made a major impact in the Industrial Development of this nation. The complete construction took just over it was ....
This is a classical case of a dictator in the golden cage where he is allpowerful, mega reach, as long as his staying power, and walking away is really in case of putin its probably host you write about some of the corporate entities that go to russia and essentially are apologists for Vladimir Putin and the current regime. Guest the fact that corporations, whether americans or europeans, always look for profits and avoid human rights and domestic repression conducted by dictatorships. Its not new. Im reading a book about the studios in nazi germany. For years have been selling movies, titles and accepted in censorship, cutting lines and throwing some movies if not to propaganda, disprove them. So unfortunately its a reality, and what is required is a very clear red line going by the government to what can be done, what should not be done, and unfortunately, all these economic about economic tools, call weapons, yet to be used. Sa ....