C-SPAN to Highlight Laramie, UW History, Authors

C-SPAN's Cities Tour is visiting Laramie and the University of Wyoming Oct. 6-10 to record the history and nonfiction literary life of the city.

Interviews with local authors and filming in the Laramie area will be for the cable network’s Book TV on C-SPAN2 and American History TV on C-SPAN3.

In conjunction with local cable provider Spectrum, the C-SPAN Cities Tour producers will visit various literary and historic sites, and interview local historians and nonfiction authors in the Laramie area.

Local segments recorded during the C-SPAN visit will air on Book TV locally on Spectrum channels 19 and 618, and American History TV on Spectrum channels 13 and 619 Nov. 2-3 during a special feature “Laramie, Wyoming.”

Laramie programming highlights include:

-- Interview with Mayor Joe Shumway.

American History TV programming highlights include:

-- Laramie Plains Museum.

-- Deerwood Ranch Wild Horse EcoSanctuary.

-- Wyoming House for Historic Women.

-- Wyoming Territorial Prison historic site.

Book TV programming authors and their books include:

-- UW Professor Jeff Lockwood, "Behind the Carbon Curtain: The Energy Industry, Political Censorship, and Free Speech.”

-- David Kruger, UW librarian, "J.C. Penney: The Man, the Store, and American Agriculture."

-- UW Professor Tracy Owens Patton and UW graduate Sally Schedlock, "Gender, Whiteness, and Power in Rodeo: Breaking Away from the Ties of Sexism and Racism."

-- UW Professor Renee Laegreid, "Women on the North American Plains."

The C-SPAN Cities Tour is exploring the American story -- traveling the country to feature the literary life and history of American cities on Book TV and American History TV channels the first and third weekend of each month.

For more information, visit C-SPAN Cities Tour and follow the program on Twitter @CSPANCities.