This event is open to ADE members only.

Clay S. Jenkinson and Sharon A. Kilzer, “Join Us in the Badlands”

Theodore Roosevelt spent much of four years (1883-1887) living, hunting, writing, and playing cowboy in the Dakota badlands. He had two ranches separated by about 45 miles along the Little Missouri River. He participated in annual roundups that carried him 75 miles to the south of his ranches and 40 miles north. He hunted widely in the badlands, and went on long solo wanderings in search of the authentic West.

Using a combination of live feeds and pre-recorded segments (at important Roosevelt locations where live transmission is unreliable), Sharon Kilzer and Clay Jenkinson will take you to the sites of a number of Roosevelt’s adventures in the badlands: the Elkhorn Ranch (his Dakota headquarters), the place where he arrested the boat thieves and began their march to justice in Dickinson, Dakota Territory, the site of his first great national speech, and the place where he shot his first buffalo. At each site we will relate the stories Roosevelt told again and again for the rest of his life. The scenery–some of it in Theodore Roosevelt National Park–is magnificent. “It was here,” Roosevelt wrote, “that the romance of my life began.”

This is a family-friendly session and will conclude with Q&A, with a special invitation to bring forward questions from children in the audience.

Trained in English Renaissance literature at the University of Minnesota and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes and Danforth scholar, Clay S. Jenkinson  writes books, portrays a number of historical characters, including Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Meriwether Lewis, appears in documentary films, including four by Ken Burns, edits the national Lewis & Clark quarterly journal We Proceeded On, hosts the nationally syndicated public radio program and podcast the Thomas Jefferson Hour, hosts and moderates humanities symposia, and serves as an editor-at-large for the distinguished online journal Governing.com. Clay is the winner of many awards, including the National Humanities Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Sharon Kilzer is the Project Manager for the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University, which is creating a comprehensive digital presidential library of all things TR at www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org. An alumna of Dickinson State University with degrees in business administration and business education, she also holds a master’s degree in theology and Christian ministry from Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. Bridging the worlds of education and executive administration, Kilzer identifies and coordinates the resources to bring the TR Center vision to reality.

This is a partially pre-recorded session with a live component for Q&A.

This event will not be recorded.