{"id":6684,"date":"2025-12-15T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/?p=6684"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:33:08","slug":"signature-rocks-emigration-and-the-signed-landscape-in-indian-country-1830-1860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/signature-rocks-emigration-and-the-signed-landscape-in-indian-country-1830-1860\/","title":{"rendered":"SIGNATURE ROCKS: EMIGRATION AND THE SIGNED LANDSCAPE IN INDIAN COUNTRY: 1830-1860"},"content":{"rendered":"

UC Riverside Retirees’ and Emeriti Associations with additional sponsorship by UCR Osher and UCR\u2019s Office of Gift Planning Present
\nThe Edward A. Dickson Emeritus\/a Professorship Lecture Series<\/h4>\n

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\"SIGNATUREConrad Rudolph, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Medieval Art History
\n<\/strong><\/span>SIGNATURE ROCKS: EMIGRATION AND THE SIGNED LANDSCAPE IN INDIAN COUNTRY: 1830-1860<\/strong><\/p>\n

Signature Rocks is the first systematic study of the surviving \u201csignatures\u201d inscribed by the emigrants, as they called themselves, on both the famous and not so famous rock formations that line the overland trails through Indian Country from the Missouri River to the Pacific from the 1830s to 1869.  Once numbering in the hundreds of thousands, only several thousand have survived. Following the overland crossing, we read  hese inscriptions \u2014 an unrecognized and vanishing American archive \u2014 in light of a number of motivations to signing culled from the over two thousand emigrant journals and other accounts that have come down to us. The result is a new understanding of this completely overlooked  spect of one of the most iconic episodes in the history of the United States.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 21, 2025
\n3:00 – 4:30 p.m. with Reception to follow
\nIn-person at University Extension Building 1101 in the University Village
\nLivestreamed via Zoom<\/p>\n

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