CONTACTS:
Steve Fountain, Department of History, 360-546-9737, sfountain@vancouver.wsu.edu
Brenda Alling, Office of Marketing and Communications, 360-546-9601, brenda_alling@vancouver.wsu.edu
VANCOUVER, Wash. - Learn about the importance of horses to native North America from Steve Fountain, Ph.D., visiting associate professor of history at Washington State University Vancouver. Fountain will draw from his forthcoming book, "From Sky Dogs to Wild Ones: Nativing the Horse in North America" at a presentation on Thursday, Feb. 4 in the meeting room at Three Creeks Community Library at 7 p.m.
Fountain's book traces the cultural and environmental changes sparked by horses in both Native American and Euro-American societies. The horse was a trade good, a means of power, a measure of wealth and a mode of transportation.
Looking at horses offers a lens on 500 years of North American history. It offers a reevaluation of the ways animals and people have interacted to shape our past and present.
Fountain earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. He has been teaching courses in early American, western American and environmental history at Â鶹´«Ã½ since 2007.
The Three Creeks Library is located at 800-C Tenney Road in Vancouver. Fountain's presentation is free and open to the public and is expected to be about one hour long. For more information, please contact Mike Jansen, Three Creeks Community Librarian, 360-571-9696.
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