Captain Jack Swilling and Apache Indian boy, c. 1880. Swilling led the famed Walker party into the unknown territory of central Arizona in search of gold.
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Old West Comes Alive

at Western History Gathering

Be transported to the Old West for a few hours when Sharlot Hall Museum and Prescott Corral of Westerners International present the Western History Symposium on Saturday, October 18.

The Symposium features historians, educators and authors delivering illuminating insights into life in the Old West in a series of one-hour programs beginning at 10 a.m. The final program starts at 3:30 p.m. The programs will be presented in the Museum’s galleries. Admission to the Symposium and Museum exhibits is by donation.

The spirited presentations include “Lessons from Yavapai Indian History,” “The Western Frontier,” “Arizona’s Overland Trail,” and “Tragedy in Southern Utah,” the story of the 1857 Mountain Meadows massacre. The Symposium will also include programs on such illustrious historical figures as political maverick Nellie Trent Bush, Civil War hero Charles Henry Veil, and Jack Swilling, presented as “Arizona’s Most Lied About Pioneer.”

Cooperating in the Symposium are the Skull Valley Historical Society, the Prescott Valley Historical Society, the Arizona Rough Riders Historical Association and the Arizona Humanities Council.

More information may be obtained by calling Fred Veil at 443-5580, or Gretchen Guice at Sharlot Hall Museum, 445-3122 ext 19 or by e-mail.