AGENDA 

• Thursday, March 30, 2017 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM: OCTA committee meetings and LCTHF Board meeting
• Friday, March 31, 2017 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM: OCTA and LCTHF Board Meetings 
• 05:00 PM: Registration Table opens 
• 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM: No-host Reception
• Saturday, April 1, 2017 07:30 AM: Registration Table opens 
• 08:00 AM: Opening remarks and welcome from OCTA and LCTHF presidents 
• 08:10 AM: Dr. Steven Fountain, "Overview of the Columbia River: The Ice Age Floods to the Present" 
• 08:40 AM: Bob Setterberg, "The Missoula Floods: A Mega-Transformation of the Pacific Northwest" 
• 09:40 AM: Sam Robinson and Sarah Hill, "The Chinook and the Cathlapotle Plankhouse at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge" 
• 10:20 AM: Alys Weber, "Scottish Fur Traders and Their American Indian Wives" 
• 11:00 AM: Barb Kubik, "We Proceeded On....Down the Grand Columbia River: The Corps of Discovery in Present Day Clark(e) County" 
• 12:00 PM: Lunch 
• 01:00 PM: Bob Cromwell, "The Fur Trade and Forts Vancouver and Colville" 
• 02:00 PM: Richard Engstrom, "Clark County Descendant of Eight Oregon Trail Families" 
• 02:30PM: Larry Bafus, "A.J. Bolon, 1845 Oregon Trail Emigrant, First Sheriff of Clark County, and His Death at Yakima" 
• 3:00 PM: Speaker TBD, "The 1853 Oregon Trail Journal of Amelia Stewart Knight" 03:30 PM: Lethene Parks, "Peter Skene Ogden: Canadian, Explorer, Trapper, and Chief Factor at Fort Vancouver" 
• 04:00 PM: Tanisha Harris, "20th Century African-Americans From Texas on the Oregon Trail and the Kaiser Shipyards in WWII" 04:30 PM: "Pearson Airfield at Fort Vancouver and Ezra Meeker's 1924 Flight Over the Oregon Trail" 
• 05:00 PM: Cocktail hour 
• 06:00 PM: Dinner 
• 07:00 PM: Special Presentations 
• 07:10 PM, Keynote Speaker Jack Nisbet, "The Mighty Columbia: Its Geography, Flora and Fauna, and the Fur Trade"
• Sunday, April 2, 2017 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM: Bus Tour - "Ridgefield to Steigerwald National Wildlife Refuges and the Lewis and Clark and Oregon National Historic Trails in the Greater Vancouver Region," Bradley Richardson, Curator at the Clark County Historical Museum, Tour Leader (limited to the first 50 registrations). Remember to bring hats, windbreakers, and sunscreen. The weather can be unpredictable at this time of year"

"The Literary Corp of Discovery: The Impact of Lewis & Clark and the American Imagination" presented by Library Director Doug Erickson. From Thomas Jefferson's hand-selected traveling library for Meriwether Lewis, to the artistic and literary impact of the Corp of Discovery on 19th century America, the Lewis & Clark Expedition has had a rich cultural history. This talk will explore these areas using multiple visual and textual examples of the influences and effects of America's most famous expedition.

Doug Erickson is the Library Director of the West Linn Public Library Previous to his present position at West Linn, Doug Erickson had been Associate Director of the Watzek Library, and Head of Special Collections and Archives at Lewis & Clark College from 1991-2015. He is co-author of five books including, William Stafford : an Exhibit Catalog and Bibliography (Lewis and Clark College: Ash Creek Press, 2000), The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition A Bibliography and Essays (Lewis and Clark College, 2003), and Jefferson's Western Explorations: Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and William Dunbar (Arthur H. Clark, 2004). William Stafford, A Bibliography, (Oak Knoll Press, 2013)

He has curated, lectured, and written text for exhibits on the American West that have been mounted at the Library of Congress, M.I.T, University of Virginia, CUNY- Graduate Center, The Jefferson Library at Monticello, American Philosophical Society, Academy of Science, Boston Athenaeum, University of Washington, University of Oregon, and The University of San Francisco. Doug has also been on this American Life, OPB, and Good Morning America, and been a research consultant for ABC Entertainment, PBS, HBO, Ken Burns Florentine Films, and other media and entertainment outlets.

Doug has served as a consultant for academic researchers and organization including, The Smithsonian, The Library of Congress, National Public Radio, Yale University, The University of California-Berkeley, and Stanford University. He has also taught courses on the American West, as well as on Archives and Special Collections at Portland State University, Emporia State University, and the University of Illinois, and been a consultant to many government agencies, universities and colleges, business, and non profits regarding Lewis and Clark, Archival Management, Books, and Libraries.

He is the past president of the NorthWest Area Archivists Association, Mountain Writers Series, and past vice president of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation's Oregon Chapter.

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