Thomas Minckler: Art Dealer & Historian (Part 2) - Epi. 217, Host Dr. Mark Sublette

I had Thomas Minckler on today and he is an art dealer, historian, book aficionado, photograph expert, you name it, he's probably an expert on it. He really is erudite in those fields, which is one of the reasons I've enjoyed spending time with him, though I haven't spent as much time with him over the last 30 years as I have recently.

It's amazing what you can learn if you spend time with your colleagues. It's my main takeaway from doing this podcast. That it's important to spend time with the people that are in your field – not just talk about work and those kinds of things but actually talk about some of the deeper issues that we all deal with.

You see, Thomas has been working on a seven-year project for the history of the state of Montana. He's amassed a huge collection of very important historical documents about Montana that's over 11,000 in size, including one of the most important documents relating to Custer and one of the very first and only maps that we know of Montana and Idaho when the territory was first divided in 1864.

So there are all these interesting stories we talk about. It went long, which I like, and it didn't seem like it, but it really was a long podcast. So I'm going to make this into a two-part episode. The first part is more about Thomas's background and what is going on in his life.

The second part is more about his current task of finishing a very important manuscript that he's been working on for a while, which will be out in press by January or February of 2023. So this is Thomas Minckler on the Art Dealer Diaries Podcast part two.