Sometimes
history can be entertaining. I spent years trying to make history come alive
and be relevant to today’s kids. Maybe I missed the point, I should have just
made it up, or most of it anyway.
I
am researching/reading a Wyoming History book published in 1918. Historians
have widely panned the work, as too much fiction and not enough fact. I don’t find
that true for much of the text, but some of it does read more like the society
page of a hundred year old weekly than it does true history.
When
the author described one member of the legislature, as one who didn’t like to
speak in public, not sure we have any politicians like that anymore. It made me
want to read on. Not many history books have punch lines, this one does. He
goes on to say that this particular law maker was more concerned with the,
after the secession was over day, than he was the law making process of the
work day. The punch line – “the longest speech he ever made in his years in the
state legislature, was, ‘I make a motion we adjourn.’ Now that is some pretty
good history.
I.S.
Bartlett History of Wyoming,
published 1918
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