2025 WESTERNERS HISTORY GATHERING
9:00 to 9:30
Meet at 9:00 for programs
Scott Lockwood will be giving a talk on the Outlaws of Fall River County. Doc Middleton stole over 2,000 horses. Sherrif Riordan was famous for shooting people in the back.
9:30 to 10:00
Karl Bochert's program will be on bathhouse history in Hot Springs and why we were the first tourist town in the Black Hills.
10:00 to 10:30 break
10:30 to 11:00
​Dawn Johnson will give a program on prostitutions, trafficking and the local mafia. The presentation will provide more information on the connection between Deadwood, Hot Springs, and Alaska.
11:30 to 12:00
12:00 to 1:00
Kenneth Hargens will talk on medical history in Hot Springs. The first cancer hospital in the United States with a cure. He will talk about Dr. Hargens.
Lunch will be provided by Mama's Cooking it will be an old fashioned roast beef dinner.
1:00 to 1:30
A program on Badger Clark.
1:30 to 2:00
Stephen Wilson will give a program on Francis Case.
2:00 to 2:30
Short break.
2:30 to 3:00
3:00 to 4:00
Hot Springs History claim to fame.
Larry Belitz talks about native American history in the Hot Springs area and will assemble a tepee in the Mueller Center and talk about all the significance of why thing are done a special way.
