Center Update!
Words to Stir the Soul pays tribute to Reg Saner, a true writer of the West
Original article from Denver Westword
Originally published on December 7, 2011
By Susan Froyd

​Usually it’s a literary hodgepodge of writings about the West read by Colorado celebrities — not the glitzy ones, but a round-robin of teachers, historians and politicians. but tonight’s Words to Stir the Soul, an annual tradition curated by the University of Colorado’s Center for the American West, will focus on the words of just…

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Jason Hanson Addresses Oil Shale Industry
Original article from Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
Originally published on October 20, 2011
By Gary Harmon

GOLDEN, CO – Center Researcher Jason Hanson, coauthor of the Center’s What Every Westerner Should Know About Oil Shale website, gave the closing plenary address at the 31st annual Oil Shale Symposium at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden today. Giving a talk entitled “The ABC’s (and X’s) of Scouting the Future for Oil…

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16
Feb
2012
Bunky Echo-Hawk

6:30 PM Glenn Miller Ballroom

Tue
20
Mar
2012
Thompson Awards for Western American Writing

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Listen to the podcast of our Ted Turner event

Ted Turner received the Center of the American West Wallace Stegner Award on September 28, 2010. To listen to a podcast of the event click the above image.