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CSAW: "Texas Gun Frontier & the Travails of Mexican History"

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Alex Hunt, Director of CSAW at WTAMU

The Gary L. Nall Lecture Series in Western Studies presents Brian DeLay: “The Texas Gun Frontier & the Travails of Mexican History.” 

Open Q&A:  3:00 - 4:00 pm 
Blackburn Room, Cornette Library—WTAMU
(26th St., Canyon, TX) 
Lecture:       7:30 pm 
Hazlewood Room—Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
(2503 4th Ave, Canyon, TX 79015)
 ***Refreshments & a book signing will follow. 

Brian DeLay (PhD, Harvard, 2004) is a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include the American West; 19th-century Americas; transnational history; US-Mexico Borderlands; Native American History; and International Arms Trade.  His publications include the award-winning War of a Thousand Deserts and the edited collection North American Borderlands. 

This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Learn more about WT's Center for the Study of the American Westand upcoming events.

Click below for a full transcript of the interview with Alex Hunt, Director of the Center for the Study of the American West. 

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