Trails Center hosts program “The Saddest of All Sad Places”
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CASPER, Wyo. – Learn about Wyoming’s past and the Mormon emigration of the mid-1800s with author and historian Dr. Gene Sessions this Saturday at the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center.
At 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on September 18, Dr. Sessions will present the program, “The Saddest of All Sad Places: Central Wyoming and the Mormon Migration of 1847” at the Trails Center. Dr. Sessions will be available to meet with the public and sign books after his presentation.
Dr. Sessions earned his Ph.D. degree from Florida State University in 1974. He is the author and editor of numerous works, including Mormon Thunder: A Documentary History of Jedediah Morgan Grant (1982, 2008), Latter-day Patriots: Nine Mormon Families and Their Revolutionary War Heritage (1975), Prophesying upon the Bones: J. Reuben Clark and the Foreign Debt Crisis, 1933-39 (1992),Camp Floyd and the Mormons: The Utah War (with Donald R. Moorman, 1992), The Search for Harmony: Essays on Science and Mormonism (with Craig J. Oberg, 1993), Utah International: A Biography of a Business (with Sterling D. Sessions, 2002), and Mormon Democrat: The Religious and Political Memoirs of James Henry Moyle (1975, 1998), for which he received the Mormon History Association’s annual award for best edited work. Dr. Sessions is Presidential Distinguished Professor of History at Weber State University in Ogden.
“We strive to host important authors and historians at the Trails Center for the benefit of the public,” says Trails Center Manager Dennis Kuhnel. “Don’t miss Saturday’s fascinating presentation.”
For more information, please call the Trails Center at 307-261-7700.
The National Historic Trails Interpretive Center is open 7 days a week from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm MST.
1501 N Poplar St., Casper, WY 82601
Admission is Free
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