Interview: Patricia Nelson Limerick on series of discussions she's hosting at the University of Colorado

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STEVE INSKEEP
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
11-29-2003
Interview: Patricia Nelson Limerick on series of discussions she's hosting at the University of Colorado

Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

STEVE INSKEEP, host:

A historian who spent her career studying papers and books says she is just beginning to appreciate how much she might learn from other living people. Patricia Nelson Limerick wrote histories that reshape the way we think about the American West. In a recent article in the Rocky Mountain News, Limerick says that, like many academics, she tended only to talk to other ...

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