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Educational Symposium
Blackfeet John L. “Cutapuis” Clarke and the Silent Call of Glacier National Park: America’s Wood Sculptor
Saturday, March 23, 2019 • Mansfield Convention Center, Missouri Room • 9 a.m. • Free Public Event Book Signing to Follow
Larry Len Peterson, M.D., is an award-winning scientist, physician, cultural historian, and author. Above all, he is a searcher. Peterson grew up in Plentywood on the great plains of northeastern Montana north of Fort Union and next to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. He graduated from the Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland and completed an internal medicine internship, a residency in the visual field of dermatology, and a NIH research fellowship. He has published in numerous scientific and medical periodicals, including The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Clinical Investigations.
His distinguished biographies include The Call of the Mountains: The Artists of Glacier National Park; John Fery: Artist of Glacier National Park & the American West; Charles M. Russell, Legacy; Charles M. Russell, Photographing the Legend: A Biography in Words and Pictures; Philip R. Goodwin: America’s Sporting and Wildlife Artist; and L. A. Huff- man: Photographer of the American West.
In its year-end Best of the West Collector’s Edition, True West Magazine rated Peterson 2018 Best Author and his American Trinity: Jefferson, Custer, and the Spirit of the West as the 2018 Best Nonfiction Book of the Year (out of 600 submissions). Its highly regarded book review and senior editor Stuart Rosebrook, Ph.D., wrote, “The end result of Peterson’s introspective journey as an author, scientist and Westerner is his publication of the most reflective, philosophical history of American history published in the past 50 years.” American Trinity also received the 2018 Will Rogers Gold Medallion Award first place for nonfiction.
Peterson is also the recipient of the C.M. Russell Heritage Award, two Western Heritage Awards, Scriver Award, High Plains Book Award, and two Will Rogers Gold Medallion Awards. He is a member of the C.M. Russell Museum Board.