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TIMELINES Inside This Issue Fall 2016 TIMELINES Inside this issue: From the Director Special Projects in the Archives Animas Museum Partnership New Staff Delaney Library News Exhibits Featured Volunteer Museum Acquisitions Friends of the Center New Acquisitions in Archives Annual Appeal Spring Programs Third Phase “Chiefs” Blanket, 1870’s; from the Durango Collection® EXPLORING OUR DYNAMIC HERITAGE 1000 Rim Drive | Durango, Colorado 81301 | 970-247-7456 | http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu FROM THE DIRECTOR Greetings! The past six months have been both busy and productive at the Center of Southwest Studies. We opened our newest year based on different themes. This will give you exhibition, Parks, the opportunity to see more of the Center’s diverse People, and Preservation: holdings in the coming years. Celebrating the National Park Service in the We have also been busy working on our “Vision 20/20 Southwest in June with for the Center of Southwest Studies” strategic plan and a lecture by Judith will be launching it soon. We are focusing on several Reynolds titled (1891) priorities and initiatives to make our collections more The Baron of Mesa Verde: Myth and Reality. The lecture accessible to students, faculty, the general public and introduced the early work of archaeologist Gustaf scholars from throughout the world by undertaking Nordenskiöld at Mesa Verde. You have probably read a large-scale digitization project in collaboration Judith’s reviews of the arts and scholarly programs with Reed Library and the Marmot digital archives. and seen her political cartoons in the Durango The project will take several years, but we already Herald. I am especially grateful to Judith for assisting have a good start as you will see in the article on the the Center in developing the summer lecture series digitization of the Walker Art Studio nitrate negatives for the past three years. The 2016 summer lectures and other preservation projects. We are also working on focused on “A Year in the Life of the West,” and the a plan that will make the Center of Southwest Studies presentations ranged in topic from “The Guns that an important destination for both scholars as well as Won the West” to the “Sand Creek Massacre” to the the general public. “Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,” among others. The fall 2016 programs are already in progress. You will Another goal of our strategic plan is to reach across have a chance to hear author Scott Thybony discuss campus in order to form partnerships with other his most recent book The Disappearances in October. departments. One partnership will result in a dinosaur In November you will have the opportunity to meet exhibit (yes, I said dinosaur exhibit!) in the Delaney Peter Soland, the Center’s doctoral fellow and adjunct Library and Archives. We are working with Drs. faculty member in the History Department, when he Jon Powell and Gary Gianniny, professors in the shares his dissertation research on the role of aviation Department of Geosciences, and their students to in the modernization of Mexico from 1928 to 1958. install some of the dinosaur bones that have eroded out of the McPhee Reservoir near Dolores. The Time Exposures and Parks, People, and Preservation exhibitions will close on November 18 to prepare for As for my much larger long-term vision for the Center our new and exciting permanent exhibitions Treasures I am collaborating with Charles Leslie at the Concert of the Southwest and Ben Nighthorse Campbell: Hall and other departments across the Fort Lewis Colorado’s Renaissance Man. We will be recreating College campus to explore the possibility of developing the U.S. Senate Office of Ben Nighthorse Campbell the north end of campus as a focal point for arts and along with a display of some of the beautiful jewelry culture. More on this exciting idea in the future. As he has crafted. The Treasures exhibit will highlight always, I look forward to seeing you and working with our signature Durango Collection® of Navajo, Pueblo you as we travel along this trail of discovery together! and Hispanic textiles, the Hensler Native American Cordially, painting collection, and the Nina Heald Webber collection of photographs and post cards, in addition to other materials from the archives. There will be several other works from our permanent collections Shelby J. Tisdale. Ph.D. on exhibit as well. Our plan is to rotate works every Director NEW STAFF AT THE CENTER Lara Aase – Librarian At the beginning of fall semester 2016, Lara Aase joined the Center as Librarian, bringing along a decade’s worth of experience in foreign-language cataloging, rare books acquisitions, and programming for Spanish speakers, plus a recent master’s degree in Library and Information Science (University of Washington 2016). She also has a BA in Music Performance and an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of New Mexico, and she completed coursework and exams towards a PhD in Spanish Literature at the University of Toronto before turning her energy towards library work. Her curiosity about Southwest history and its documentation began at UNM when she studied Spanish paleography and transcribed Spanish colonial manuscripts for indexing. Later she worked as a research assistant in an educational outreach program to schools in New Mexico Pueblos and the Navajo Nation. She also studied Indigenous Systems of Knowledge during her MLIS, which deeply influenced her approach to organizational systems and library user groups. Lara is interested in increasing the accessibility and use of special collections—both the physical books on the shelves and digital objects online. She plans to research library user experience at the Delaney Library and to facilitate digital humanities projects involving library and archives materials. Lara grew up in Albuquerque, NM, and returning to the Southwest after many years away feels like coming home. She looks forward to playing violin and viola with the San Juan Symphony, exploring the Four Corners area with her husband and child, and riding the train to Silverton in all seasons. Peter Soland – Doctoral Fellow in Southwest History Peter Soland is a scholar of Latin American History, specializing in modern Mexico. He earned his doctorate in History from the University of Arizona in the summer of 2016 after successfully defending his dissertation “Mexican Icarus: Modernity, National Identity, and Aviation Development in Mexico, 1928– 1958.” The study explores the spectacle of aviation in cultural events including film, airshows, goodwill flights, and state-sponsored funerals, connecting the history of aviation to oftentimes conflicting discourses of Revolutionary nationalism and modern cosmopolitanism espoused by both national and regional elites. His fascination with the connections between culture and technology continues to drive his research at the Center, where he is examining issues related to regional mining in the Southwest. Pete loves traveling any chance he gets, especially in Latin America. He also enjoys basketball and wishes the Skyhawks the best of luck on their upcoming season. FEATURED VOLUNTEER the Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell papers. Mike is also working on an Mike Todt article on health care in the West. We are so grateful that Mike Todt sought us out for a volunteer opportunity three Mike is a semi-retired historian and years ago, because his help in archival psychologist who moved to Durango Mike working with the Campbell papers. processing has been immense. His work in 2013. For fun he loves road biking includes developing a record group and and has competed in the Iron Horse series system; then he dives directly into Classic several times. As site stewards Ever smiling and always quick with an sorting files and boxes. He has already for Canyon of the Ancients, he and his interesting story, Mike is an invaluable processed Mercy Hospital records and the wife Tammy monitor ruins while also asset to our work here at the Center, Opposition to Animas La Plata Project enjoying their other passions – hiking and we are extremely thankful for his documents. He is currently processing and camping. continued support as a Member. Cheers! NEW ACQUISITIONSQ IN ARCHIVES The Archives continues to receive great donations from our supporters and the general public. We not only collect material related to the Southwest, we also archive the history of Fort Lewis College. One donation provided records on the activities of the on other road issues in Southwest Colorado, as well as Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Another included on the general history of the Telluride area. hundreds of slides from the Jump Start Freshman Orientation program, in which two faculty members In July, as part of the San Juan Basin Archaeology led students on cultural, recreational and educational Society’s monthly meeting and in collaboration with the activities around the Four Corners region. Four Corners Summer Lecture Series, Paul Berkowitz gave a presentation of his book titled The Case of the Dr. Andrew Gulliford recently donated documents Indian Trader: Billy Malone and the National Park Service and maps related to research compiled on behalf of Investigation at Hubbell Trading Post. Billy Malone lived San Miguel County. The research was for a lawsuit most of his life on the Navajo Reservation working as involving an historic mining trail above Telluride at the last trader to operate the historic Hubbell Trading Bear Creek, also known as the Wasatch Trail, as well Post. In 2004, the National Park Service launched as access through the Telluride Ski Area at Gold Hill an investigation targeting Malone, alleging a long list Road, now the See Forever ski run. Dr. Gulliford of crimes that were “similar to Al Capone.” In 2005, was hired by the defendant, San Miguel County, to federal agent Paul Berkowitz took over the case. His research and write about the Bear Creek and Wasatch investigation uncovered serious problems with the Trails, the Gold Hill Road, and the Stargazer and original allegations, raising questions about the integrity Ella Mining Claims in three separate reports filed of his supervisors and colleagues as well as high-level from September 2012 to July 2013.
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