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Note: All sessions are free with the exception of lunch sessions. The lunch sessions will require a small fee for the price of lunch. A shuttle will be available to take guests and speakers between the AHC and the Geology Building.
 February 20, 2006
Session I—Constructing the Union Pacific Railroad, 9:00 to 10:15
Location: American Heritage Center
- “The Route of the Union Pacific in Southeastern Wyoming: Sherman Hill and the Mystery of the Gangplank” by Lawrence M. Ostresh, University of Wyoming, and Steven Rehbaum, Wilson Miller, Inc. Tampa, Florida.
- “Your Loving Wife, Frank: The Personal Letters of Jack and Frances Casement,” by Ginny Kilander, University of Wyoming
- “The Railroad Depots of Laramie,” by Lawrence M. Ostresh, University of Wyoming
Session II—Tracks to Laramie: Life in a Wyoming Railroad Town, 10:30 to 11:45 Location: American Heritage Center
- “Mapping the Railroad to Laramie City,” by John Waggener, University of Wyoming
- “Building the Gem City,” By Leslie Shores, University of Wyoming
- “Mattress Capitalists and Brainless Toothpick-Suckers in the Gem City Tenderloin,” by Carol Bowers, University of Wyoming
Lunch - Centennial Complex Restraunt at the AHC. Sandwiches for $9.50/person
Session III- Fossil Expeditions Along the Track, 1:15 to 2:30
Location: American Heritage Center
- “Como Bluff, Wyoming, 1868-1877: An Initial Glimpse of One of the World’s Premier Dinosaur Sites,” by Brent Breithaupt, University of Wyoming
- “O.C. Marsh and the Yale Scientific Expedition of 1871,” by Mary Faith Pankin, George Washington University
- “Edward Drinker Cope’s Fossil Expeditions Along the Route of the UPRR in Wyoming,” by Jane P. Davidson, University of Nevada, Reno
Keynote Speaker-- 3:00 to 4:00
Location: S.H. Knight Geology Building, Room 216
- "What Dinosaur Skull Growth Says About Dinosaur Behavior," Dr. Jack Horner, Curator of Paleontology, Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University,
Reception at University of Wyoming Geology Museum (4:00-5:00 pm)
February 21, 2006
Session I—Excavation by Rail, 9:00 to 10:15
Location: American Heritage Center
- “Fossil Fields Expedition of 1899: A Joint University of Wyoming/Union Pacific Railroad Excursion,” by Elizabeth H. Southwell, University of Wyoming
- “Names to Conjure With” Correspondence between the Union Pacific Railroad and the Carnegie Museum Regarding Free Transportation of Dionsaur Collectors and Specimens,” by Bernadette G. Callery, Carnegie Museum of Natural History Library
- “Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie’s Dinosaur,” by Tom Rea, Casper, Wyoming
Session II—The Influence of Transportation on the Development of the West. 10:30 to 11:45
Location: American Heritage Center
- “By Rail and by Wagon: A Triceratops Hunt in Frontier Wyoming: The University of Kansas Expedition of 1895,” by Michael F. Kohl, Clemson University
- “From Dinos to Dinosaurs: Dinotourism in the United States,” by Nancy Weidel, Wyoming Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources
- “The History of Demonstration Trains: Using Visuals to Educate Early Outreach/Cooperative Extension Clientele,” by Steven D. Aagard and Landra L. Rezabek, University of Wyoming
Lunch—Centennial Complex Restaurant, 11:45-12:45
Location: AHC Cost: $13.50/person
Keynote Speaker 1:00-2:00
Location: Family Room, Student Union
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