U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORBUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT Trails
Center Hosts Women’s History Speaker Dorene Ludwig By Lesley
Collins, Public Affairs Specialist, High Plains District “Across
the Great Divide: How Women Made the West” was held at 2:30
p.m., March 18, 2009, at the NHTIC. Ludwig used first person
vignettes of early western women to encourage discussion about
how women of varied backgrounds poured their hearts into
families, their spirits into towns and their energy and hard
work into the land. In her program, Ludwig portrays western
women in the roles of missionary, schoolteacher, homemaker,
artist, rancher, physician, and scout. Her characterizations of
women are carefully researched and raise thought-provoking
questions about the impact of women on western settlement.
Ludwig is the artistic director of the American Living History
Theater in Greybull. She has appeared in one-woman productions
before audiences coast to coast. Ludwig travels widely and has
served as a trainer for NASA, the U.S. Ar