Brigham Lectures

              1904— SEASON —1905
The Brigham Lectures
An American Lecturer on American Subjects
F. W. Gunsaulus
Mr. Nat M. Brigham is a thorough¬going American, and his lectures possess the good humor and breadth which our American life has obtained wherever it is best and truest. Two or three times I have been moved by him as by almost no other man who seeks to express the best to the best.
Robert Burdette
The mantle of Stoddard has not fallen upon Brigham; he has a better costume of his own.
Lulu Tyler Gates
Mr. Nat M. Brigham has proved his right to first place in the ranks of the greatest lecturers. His views are unsurpassed and his lecture material is new and filled to the brim with in¬tense interest for both young and old.
NAT M. BRIGHAM
TRAVELER ORATOR
LECTURER SINGER
Illustrated lectures
I. THE GRAND CANYON OF ARIZONA
II.   THE LAND OF THE SNAKE DANCE—Introducing Indian and Spanish Songs
III.   THE APACHE WARPATH—Martial Songs
IV.   UTAH AND THE MORMON COMMONWEALTH—characteristic Songs V. THE MEN WHO WON THE WEST
Management GEO.W. BRITT, Representing Redpath Lyceum Bureau, Boston
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Biographical Sketch
NAT M. BRIGHAM, of Chicago, was born in Saxonville, Mass., March 8, 1856. Is a graduate of the Natick (Mass.) High School, Phillips Exeter (N. H.) Academy and of Harvard University, '80, being a classmate of President Roosevelt. During his college course he was a member of 'Varsity Crews of '77, '78, '79, '80, and was celebrated as the tenor soloist of the Harvard Glee Club. For nine years he was a citizen of Utah, and for four years United States Marshal for the territory.
LECTURES for busy people; for people who read but have no time for travel; for people who travel but have no time to read.   LECTURES for the farmer, the mechanic, the artisan.   Living journeys
in America's wonderlands— bringing the song of the Indian, the Spaniard, the plain and the camp - fire. Lectures for Americans by an American, 
The Grand
Canyon of 
Arizona
This lecture has been con¬sidered Mr. Brigham's mas¬terpiece. It is unlike any other descriptive lecture ever presented to the Amer¬ican public.
The audience might have seen the Grand Canyon without the magic of the photographer's art, that threw pictures of matchless bsauty and indescribable color on the canvas; Mr. Brigham's description, no less brilliant, limned the scenes on the brain. His enunciation, Phillips Brooks-like in its easy rapidity, is clear as bell-notes; his manner is graceful, as of a man unconsciously sure of himself and his subject;   his unstudied gestures are pertinent and forceful; and in the
lighter parts his humor, rollicking as a schoolboy's, flashes across the beautiful landscape of his discourse,               
brilliant as summer lightning.—Bob Burdette.
The Land of the
Snake Dance
is a vivid description of one of the strangest ceremonies among In dian tribes.—The Annual Snake Dance of the Hopi Indians in Northern Arizona. The lecture is replete with side views on the domestic life and customs of the Hopis and Navajos. It breathes the charm and isolation of the great desert. One has called it a desert pastoral. Mr. Brigham here introduces the singing of weird Indian music and delight¬ful Spanish songs. Beautifully illustrated.
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the stirring scenes of border warfare in Arizona, and a glow¬ing tribute to the heroism of Generals  Crook and Miles, and a graphic account of Lawton's capture of Geronimo. "At the close of his eloquent address at Lexington, Ky., Maj. O. S. Tenny,  an old confederate, impelled by the feeling of days agone, and aroused by the eloquence of the speaker,  jumped on his feet and shouted:     'Mr. Chairman, that was the best lecture I ever heard.    I move that this splendid audience vote its thanks to the gifted speaker.'  The audience responded heartily." In  this lecture Mr. Brigham sings:    "Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground."
Utah and the Mormon
Commonwealth
is most beautifully illus¬trated from rare and beautiful photographs, and is of absorbing interest. From the settlement in 1847 by Brigham Young and his followers,
the sociological condi¬tions of Utah have aroused   the  most in-
THE  MORMON TEMPLE
intense antagonisms. Mr. Brigham was for many years a citizen of Utah, and in his treatment of the historical, religious and political conditions aims to be absolutely impartial. The discussion is on the high plane of National interest.    Characteristic Mormon songs are introduced.
Geronimo
The Men Who Won the
West
The wonderful journey of Lewis and Clark 100 years ago was the foundation of the Mis¬souri Valley and the Great North-West. The incredible hardships endured by Lewis and Clark, George Rogers Clarke, Generals Pike and Fremont, make their adventures epics of heroism. The story of the trapper, fur trader, scout, explorer, em¬igrant, soldier and home-seeker is eloquently told. It is the story of the expan¬sion of the American re¬public — beautifully illus¬trated with rare color views.
Mr. Brigham has carved out an absolutely unique subject in illustrated lec¬ture work. He has given us the vivid march of a cen¬tury of American progress.
The lecture teems with interest for the American people now celebrating the one hundredth anni¬versary of the Louisiana Purchase.
Meriwether Lewis 
W.M. Clark
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What Chautauquans Say
Dr. Jay A. Ford, Supt. Inst.
and Platform
Nat M. Brigham, the American lecturer on American subjects, gave us two lectures at the last session of our Piasa Chautauqua Assem-bly. The subject-matter and illustrations were of an exceedingly high order. It is hard to speak too highly of the splendid work of Mr. Brigham and it affords me great pleasure to present this commendation to the American public.
y. A. Kilpatrick, Ass't Manager,
Macatawa Assembly
Mr. Nat M. Brigham's lectures would be complete without his pictures, though the pic¬tures are the best I have seen. He was en-thusiastically received here.
H. P. Smith, Pres. Lake Madison
Chautauqua
Nat M. Brigham's illustrations of the Grand Canyon of Arizona have never been excelled on our Chautauqua platform and his word pic-tures were no less perfect than the reflections of the camera.
James H. Shaw, Superintendent
Mr. Nat M. Brigham delivered at the Racine, Wis., Chautauqua "The Grand Canyon of Arizona" and "The Apache Warpath." Mr. Brigham's work is characterized by finish and artistic effect. His pictures are beautiful and his voice the most melodious speaking voice I have ever heard.
W. L. Davidson, Supt. Chautauqua, Lexington, Ky.
Mr. Nat M. Brigham of Chicago gave two illustrated lectures at the Kentucky Chau¬tauqua during the season of 1903 which were magnificently successful in every sense of the word. He has gone into new and inviting fields for his material. His stereopticon views are original and first-class as to photography and coloring. Mr. Brigham possesses a strong and well modulated voice and his lectures are admirably delivered and possess a first-class literary finish. The patrons of the Assembly insist that we have never had in all the years of our history, two finer stereopicon lectures.
W. A. Cochrane, Pres. Delavan
Lake Assembly
The illustrated lecture of Nat M. Brigham on the "Grand Canyon of Arizona" was one of the most thrilling and picturesque entertain-ments ever given at the Delavan Lake Assem¬bly. The large audience was charmed and delighted with the beautifully colored views, veritable works of art, and his splendid delivery and vivid description of the wonderful canyon produced a profound impression.
Dr. Nathaniel Butler, University
of Chicago
I heard and witnessed the illustrated lec¬ture given by Mr. Nat M. Brigham at the Chautauqua Assembly, Ottawa, Kansas, July 1903. His subject was the "Grand Canyon of Arizona." It gives me pleasure to say without reserve that this is the best of many lectures of this class I have ever heard, not only of the pictures themselves, splendid illustrations of the subjects discussed, but, what is not always the case, the lecture itself was rich with vivid descriptions and valuable information presented in the most attractive form. I am certain any audience will be de¬lighted and instructed in a very high degree by the lectures which Mr.  Brigham presents.
Fuller Swift, Supt. Programme, North Dakota Chautauqua, Devils Lake, N. D.
We of the Northwest think that Nat M. Brigham, of the Southwest, in his story and song of the people of the past and the scenes that remain, is a success. His pictures were the finest, his songs the sweetest, his manner the simplest and his entertainment among the best on our program.
A. H. Limerick, Secy W.infield
Chautauqua Assembly
It affords me great pleasure to be able to say that, in the seventeen years of the Win-field Assembly, the audience has not listened to more scholarly, high grade, finely delivered lectures or pictures more pleasing to the eye, that those given from the Chautauqua platform by Nat M. Brigham, June 22d and 23d.