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Summer 2001, Volume 73, Number 3 Edited by Phil Roberts On the Cover: A postcard published in the 1920s by the J.L. Robbins Co., Spokane, Wash. and sold widely throughout the northern part of Wyoming. |
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This issue of Annals is dedicated to the memory of Dr. T. A.
Larson, Wyoming's historian, who died in January, 2001. Born Jan.
18, 1910, in Nebraska, he graduated from the University of Colorado in
1932. Later, after gaining the M. A. in history from C. U., he went on
for the Ph.D. in history at the University of Illinois. He came to the
University of Wyoming in 1936 and, except for an interruption for
military service (1943-46), he spent his entire career teaching at UW,
retiring in 1975. Following his retirement, he was elected to the
Wyoming legislature, serving four terms.
He was the author of four books, including the History of Wyoming
(1965, rev. 1978), used by generations of college students and still the
standard text on Wyoming history. He wrote numerous articles, including
several for Annals of Wyoming, and served the past six years on
our board of editors. A founding member of both the Wyoming State
Historical Society and the Albany County chapter, he served as the
Society's fourth president (1957-58). Even after his retirement from the
University, he continued to participate in history-related activities,
including attendance at most WSHS annual meetings and treks. He also
served as president of the Western History Association and gave history
presentations throughout the state and region.
Dr. Larson was interviewed for Annals in the fall of 1994. He told then-editor Mark Junge that he had taught an estimated 16,000 students. Junge asked him what he thought his legacy would be. Always modest about his numerous achievements, he said: "It would have to be in the field of Wyoming history and in teaching. And that ties in with writing because the writing helped my teaching. No, I think it's in the dissemination of the knowledge about Wyoming history, and getting people interested in that, and respecting their history, and trying to get them to be more critical, to ask questions and to not just accept what a book says about something or other."
His legacy lives and may Annals always be faithful to it.
-- Phil Roberts, Editor
Articles in Annals of Wyoming, Summer, 2001:
"Cheyenne's Harry P. Hynds:
Blacksmith, Saloon Keeper, Promoter, Philanthropist"
by Shirley E. Flynn
"Fort Laramie -- After the Army
Part I: The Auction"
by Douglas McChristian
"Early Cody Bands"
by Ester Johansson Murray
"The Kendrick-Ziehlsdorff Correspondence:
Myth and Reality in the Salt Creek Oil Field"
by Eugene T. Carroll
RESEARCH NOTE:
"Harold R. Tyler, Jr. Collection"
AHC
BOOK REVIEWS Edited by Carl Hallberg
The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity (Legal History of North America Series, Vol 5),
by Debra L. Donahue,
reviewed by Mark E. Miller, Wyoming State Archaeologist.
Journeys to the Land of Gold:
Emigrant Diaries from the Bozeman Trail, 1863-1866,
edited by Susan Badger Doyle,
reviewed by Catherine Curtiss, Sheridan College.
African Americans on the Western Frontier,
by Monroe Lee Billington (Editor) and Roger D. Hardaway (Editor),
reviewed by Dennis Mihelich, Creighton University.
Scots in the North American West, 1790-1917,
by Ferenc Morton Szasz,
reviewed by Michael F. Funchion, South Dakota State University.
The journal is available as a benefit of membership in the Wyoming State Historical Society (published quarterly), Individuals interested in purchasing individual copies or submitting manuscripts for possible publication in the Annals should contact the editor, Annals of Wyoming, American Heritage Center, Dept. 3924, 1000 E. University Avenue
Laramie WY 82071.
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