To get to the conference hotel, the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, from the airport in Reno, Nevada, the WHA has made an arrangement with North Lake Tahoe Express (NLTE), a local shuttle service.

Ground transportation at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport is limited so it is strongly recommended that you make an advance reservation, to avoid delay on your arrival.

Reservations are required 24 hours in advance for the shuttle to travel at the scheduled times.

The direct URL for the log-in page of the reservation system is:

Transit Activity Tickets.

Your code to log in is WHA. When you log in, you will be brought to a screen that will say “Welcome Western History Association.”

You will log in using this code and this will also be the “group code” that you will use when making the reservations. This will ensure that you will receive the correct rate:  which is $35.00 each way. Travel time to the hotel from the Reno airport is approximately 40 minutes.

You may also contact the NLTE dispatch office directly for reservations at 866-216-5222 and mention the group code WHA.

The larger number of passengers you book on one reservation with one payment method the better group rate you will receive. If you know that a friend or colleague will be traveling and needing the same shuttle times, you would be able to receive a better group rate by making the reservation for all of them under one person’s name, with one credit card, and then splitting the cost amongst the group.

The WHA also has an agreement with Hertz, a national rent-a-car service.   For details, see: Hertz Meeting Services.

The Western History Association’s 50th Annual Meeting will be held on October 13-16, 2010. The conference hotel is the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa and Casino, which is located in Incline Village, Nevada, on the northeast shore of Lake Tahoe .  The hotel is actually situated on the beach, to which hotel guests will have direct access. The room rate is $139.00 per night. The $139 includes a $10.00 resort fee.

You may reserve your room early and online.

Click link for:  Reservations at the Hyatt Regency for WHA Conference Attendees.

The Montana Historical Society offers up to two JAMES H. BRADLEY FELLOWSHIPS every summer to graduate students, faculty, and/or independent scholars pursuing research on Montana history. The Fellowship stipend is $2,500.

The recipient of the award is expected to be in residence for four weeks between June 1 and October 31. Fellows are expected to make use of the MHS’s collections and to submit a written report upon completion of the research. Bradley Fellows also agree to submit an article based on the research for possible publication in the Society’s quarterly journal, Montana The Magazine of Western History, within one year of their residency.

Award Criteria
1) suitability of research to the Society’s archival, library, or museum collections
2) applicant’s experience and training
3) potential of the project to make a significant contribution to historical scholarship on
Montana
4) potential of the project to produce an article-length publication.

Applications must include a cover letter, a project proposal not to exceed three double-spaced pages, a 2-3 page resume, and at least one letter of recommendation. The proposal should indicate what material in the MHS collections the applicant intends to consult. Historical Society employees and previous Bradley Fellows are not eligible to apply.

Applications must be postmarked no later than March 1st, 2010 and sent to the Bradley Selection Committee, Montana Historical Society, PO Box 201201, Helena, MT 59620-1201. Email: mhslibrary@mt.gov or call (406) 444-2681. Announcement of the award will be made in early April. For more information about the Montana Historical Society and its collections see: www.montanahistoricalsociety.org.

With generous support from the USDA Forest Service, Grey Towers National Historic Site and the Grey Towers Heritage Association welcome applications for a one-to four-week writing retreat and residency at Grey Towers National Historic Site in Milford, PA.  Please click here for additional information about the program and and how to apply.

(Please note: if you are reading this from the WHA home page, you will need to click on the title in order to access the information)

On November 14th, 2009, José Cisneros, the respected El Paso artist, who “tore at racism,” passed away. Born in Villa Ocampo, Durango, Mexico, he lived to the age of 99.

Of humble birth and self-taught, his art came to be admired by the Pope, the King of Spain, and the President of the United States.  For more about this venerated figure, please see the article, “The Man Who Showed Us the Past: Celebrated Artist José Cisneros has become a bit of a History Lesson Himself,” published in The El Paso Times.

In 1963, at the request of John Porter Bloom, the secretary of the organization, Cisneros drew the WHA’s wagon-wheel-and-arrow logo.  There was no charge.