Author Talk with Ken Robison

Join us in the Cordingley Room as we have a conversation with local historian, Ken Robison, as he debuts his latest historical book. Cassiopeia Books will be on site to sell copies of "Hidden History of Great Falls".

More than steamboats and famous explorers, Great Falls’s history is colored with compelling episodes nearly lost to the ages. Glacial Lake Great Falls changed the course of the Missouri River while carving fascinating geologic features like Lost Lake, the Big Sag and Lewis & Clark’s Slaughter River. Copper from Butte mines, Anaconda smelters and Great Falls refineries wired the world and helped win the World Wars. Landless Indigenous peoples sought refuge on a hill called “57.” A local crusading editor became “Montana’s Conscience” and authored the revered Montana High, Wide, and Handsome. A Civil War monument was raised to honor The Blue and The Gray—the first in the nation to do so. Pathbreaking preservationists Charley and Sue Bovey created Old Town in Great Falls and saved acclaimed gold rush era Virginia City before historic preservation was cool. Award winning historian Ken Robison brings to life little-known accounts from a storied past.

You may also like the following events from Great Falls Public Library:

• Next Tuesday, 17th February, 05:00 pm, Love Your Library Celebration and Welcome to Amy in Great Falls
• Next month, 10th March, 05:30 pm, The Story of Us: The Women Who Shaped Montana - Documentary in Great Falls
• Next month, 17th March, 06:30 pm, Author Talk with Maya Jewell Zeller in Great Falls

Also check out other Arts events in Great Falls, Literary Art events in Great Falls, Workshops in Great Falls.