The Fort Historic Lecture Series
The Fort's Heritage Program is excited to announce our 2025 Spring Historic Lecture Series. Our popular Sunday dinner lectures will be $75 per person. For the dinner lectures, use code "earlybird" (case sensitive), by December 31, 2024, and the first 100 tickets sold will get $10 off each ticket. The code can be used on any lecture.
Dinner lectures include a four-course prix fixe menu with wine service provided. Pre-lecture libations include a complimentary non-alcoholic Colanche lemonade, or $5 Prickly Pear Margaritas or $5 glass of wine.
New to the Sunday lectures this year, will be a box lunch and lecture from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for $29 per person.
Buy now, before the lunch and dinner lectures sell out!
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See below for lecture date and topics or click below for tickets.
Click HERE for the LUNCH lecture tickets.
Click HERE for the DINNER lecture tickets.
Cancellation Policy: To receive a full refund or transfer your registration to another lecture, please cancel your reservation for our lunch or dinner lectures no later than the Wednesday before the scheduled lecture.
Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West - Jerry Enzler - April 27, 2025
Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. His adventures are fit for remaking into the tall tales Bridger himself liked to tell. Here, in this new award-winning biography that finally gives this outsize character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman’s full measure for the first time—and tells a story that would do Bridger proud. Enzler will also describe Bridger’s guiding Edward Berthoud in 1861 from Denver to Provo and back and also Bridger witnessing a nine-day flood of the Platte River and what would one day be called Cherry Creek years before Denver was settled.
Dinner Menu: Mountain Man “Boudie” plate (one buffalo sausage, one rabbit rattlesnake sausage), served with sweet chile sauce and Dijon mustard for dipping, Fort potatoes, chef's seasonal vegetables, and Spotted Dog Bread Pudding served with a rum caramel sauce, and raisins, perfectly baked and served warm with a scoop of ice cream.
