AGENDA
Thursday, February 20, 2020
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM: OCTA strategic planning session at the Shiloh Inn
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM: Registration table open at the Shiloh Inn
Friday, February 21, 2020
08:00 AM - 04:00 PM: OCTA board meeting at the Shiloh Inn
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM: Registration table open at the Shiloh Inn
09:00 AM - 04:00 PM: Pre-symposium tours of the Territorial Prison and Quartermasters Depot (depart hotel at 8:30 AM for first tour)
12:00 PM - 05:00 PM: Registration table open a the Shiloh Inn
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM; Dinner on your own
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM: Opening reception at the Sanguinetti House with entertainment by award-winning American Indian musician Steve Rushingwind
Saturday, February 22, 2020
08:00 AM - 04:00 PM: Speakers at the Shiloh Inn (lunch will be served by the Angry Crab Shack at noon)
· Dr. Carlos Herrera: Juan Bautista de Anza
· Doug Hocking: Terror on the Santa Fe Trail: Kit Carson and the Jicarilla Apache
· Harry Hewitt: El Deseo de Cubrir Honor Nacional: The Mexican Boundary Surveyors Reach the Confluence of the Rio Colorado and the Rio Gila (Yuma) in 1849 and 1851
· William MacKinnon: ‘Yo Mismo’ - Aboard the Butterfield Mail/William Allen Wallace and His Extraordinary Cross-Country Travels, 1850-1860
· Bill Heidner: Fort Yuma: The Need for a Fort and the Strategic and Cultural Significance of Yuma Crossing
· Tom Jonas: Tracing the Southern 49er Trail from Yuma Across the Imperial Desert to Warner’s Ranch in California
· John Krizek: Freighting on the Ehrenburg Road - The Adventuresome Legacy of Transportation from the Colorado River to the Interior of Arizona During Territorial Days
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM: Southern Trails Chapter Meeting
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM: No-Host Bar, Dinner by the Angry Crab Shack, and Keynote Address by Tina Clark, Historian and Archaeologist for the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area
Sunday, February 23, 2020
08:00 AM - 03:00 PM: Bus Tour of Yuma and Imperial County, California. Stops include: Mormon Battalion Monument, Fort Yuma/Mision Puerto de Purisima Concepcion, Mision San Pedro y San Pablo de Bicuner and cemetery, 1776 Anza Campsites, 1540 Alarcon (Coronado) Monument, Old Spanish Highway Boardwalk across the Algodones Dunes, 1849 Camp Salvation, and Pioneers Museum in Imperial. Lunch and admission included.