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April 4, 2007
UNM’s Hutton Presents Calvin Horn Lecture
Kit Carson focus of talk
Legend clashes with reality on the American Frontier as Professor Paul Hutton presents “Kit Carson’s Ride,” the 2007 C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture in Western History and Culture, on Thursday, April 19 at 5:30 p.m., Ballroom B in the University of New Mexico Student Union Building.
The lecture, followed by a book signing and reception, is sponsored by the Center for the Southwest, the Department of History and UNM Press. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 277-7688.
Paul Hutton is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. His book, Phil Sheridan and His Army (1985), received the Billington Prize from the Organization of American Historians, the Evans Biography Award and the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. He has published widely in both scholarly and popular magazines, has written a dozen television documentaries, and has appeared in more than150 television programs on CBS, NBC, PBS, BBC, Discovery, Disney Channel, TBS, TNN, A&E, and the History Channel.
In 2003-2005 he wrote and co-produced five episodes of the History Channel series Investigating History with Bill Kurtis. Hutton is also the recipient of four Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and four Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. He has served as the associate editor of the Western Historical Quarterly (1977-1984), the editor of the New Mexico Historical Review (1985-1991), and the Executive Director of the Western History Association (1990-2006). Hutton currently serves as the Executive Director of Western Writers of America.
The C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Endowment Fund supports the C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture, a distinguished lecture series now in its 22nd year. Calvin and Ruth’s vision for the series was to provide the campus and the larger community access to inspiring speakers who brought history to life by providing perspectives on the West. By understanding the past we gain new insight into the history of such matters as land use, conservation, access to water, our regional identity, the creative arts and the actions of historical figures.
Past lectures have highlighted well-known western historians such as Patricia Nelson Limerick, Marc Simmons, David Weber, Vicki Ruiz, Philip Deloria and Hal Rothman. The late Calvin Horn was one of New Mexico’s most beloved civic leaders. Calvin and Ruth shared a passion for learning and became lead supporters of Manzano Day School and the University of New Mexico.
More About the speaker —
Paul Andrew Hutton is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. Hutton’s Phil Sheridan and His Army (1985) received the Billington Prize from the Organization of American Historians, the Evans Biography Award, and the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. He has published widely in both scholarly and popular magazines. His 1991 essay on Custer films, “Correct in Every Detail” won the Paladin Award as the best article to appear in Montana The Magazine of Western History that year, while his 1995 essay in the same magazine, “Showdown at the Hollywood Corral: Wyatt Earp in the Movies,” received the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum as best article of the year. A 1998 American History article on Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders won Hutton a second Western Heritage Award in 1999. His scripts for the 2001 and 2003 History Channel two-hour specials “Boone & Crockett: The Hunter Heroes” and “Carson & Cody: The Hunter Heroes” both received Spur Awards for Best Documentary from the Western Writers of America while his 2002 script for the National Park Service film “Daniel Boone and the Westward Movement” won him a third Western Heritage Award in 2003. In 2005 he received a fourth Western Heritage Award for his 2004 Wild West magazine article “’It was but a small affair’: The Battle of the Alamo” and the following year won a fourth WWA Spur Award for his History Channel script for “Mountain Massacre” on Investigating History. He is the editor of Frontier and Region (1997), Soldiers West (1987), the ten-volume Eyewitness to the Civil War series from Bantam Books (1991-93), and The Custer Reader. The latter was a History Book Club selection and received the John M. Carroll Literary Award from the Little Big Horn Associates. In 1988 he was the Mead Distinguished Research Fellow in American History at the Huntington Library. From 1977 to 1984 he was associate editor of the Western Historical Quarterly , from 1985 to 1991 he was editor of the New Mexico Historical Review, and from 1990-2006 served as Executive Director of the Western History Association. He has written a dozen television documentaries and has appeared in over 150 television programs on CBS, NBC, PBS, BBC, Discovery, Disney Channel, TBS, TNN, A&E, and the History Channel, and in 2003 was historical consultant for the Ron Howard film The Missing. In 2003-2005 he wrote and co-produced five episodes of the History Channel series Investigating History with Bill Kurtis. Hutton currently serves as the Executive Director for Western Writers of America.
More About the Series —
The C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Endowment Fund supports the C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture, a distinguished lecture series now in its twenty-second year. The vision for the series was to provide the entire community access to inspiring speakers who brought Western history to life.
The late Calvin Horn was one of New Mexico’s most beloved civic leaders. Together with his brother, H.B. Horn, he co-founded the successful Horn Oil Company. He created a loving family with Ruth Horn, with whom he had seven children. Ruth and Calvin shared a passion for learning and became lead supporters of Manzano Day School and UNM. Calvin established the Horn Publishing Company, which preserved New Mexico’s cultural heritage by publishing scholarly books on New Mexican and Southwestern history. He authored three books and edited several more.
Committed to serving his community, Calvin spent ten years in the New Mexico State House of Representatives, including a term as speaker, and was a UNM Regent from 1971-82, serving one term as President of the Regents. Calvin and Ruth also established Noonday Ministries at their First Baptist Church, which continues to provide food and assistance to the homeless.
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