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Redd Center for Western Studies at BYU hosts annual lecture March 25

The College of Family, Home and Social Sciences and TheCharles Redd Center for Western Studies are hosting the Annaley Naegle ReddLecture Tuesday, March 25, at 7 p.m. in the Lee Library auditorium at BrighamYoung University.

Louis Warren will discuss “A Hole in the Dream: The GhostDance and the Making of Modern America." Admission is free and the publicis welcome.

Warren focuses his writing on 20th centuryWestern U.S. history, including immigration, environmental issues anddemographic impact. A specialist in environmental history, Warren is anauthority on the history of conflicts between hunting and animal rights,no-growth and slow-growth movements and Buffalo Bill Cody's legacy.

His books, “Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and theWild West Show” (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005) and “The Hunter's Game: Poachers andConservationists in Twentieth-Century America” (Yale University Press, 1997)have earned him several awards.

For more information, contact Jason Thompson at (801)422-4048.

Writer: David Luker

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