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American Heritage Center • University of Wyoming

LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

Rick Ewig

Yellowstone Park Commissioner andformer Secretary of the WyomingTerritory John W. Meldrum (secondfrom left on the white horse) was amember of the party that accompaniedPresident Theodore Roosevelt 56 milesfrom Laramie to Cheyenne, Wyoming,in 1903.

John W. Meldrum Collection

nThe American Heritage Center’s annual reportfor the year 2001 highlights our collections

of Wyoming’s political leaders. In the followingpages you will meet some of the many men andwomen who served Wyoming, and in many cases,our country. These include such noted politiciansas Alan K. Simpson, three-term United Statessenator; Nellie Tayloe Ross, the state’s and thenation’s first woman governor; Mike Sullivan, two-term Wyoming governor and former U.S.Ambassador to Ireland; and Francis E. Warren,Wyoming’s territorial governor, first state governor,and for thirty-seven years a U.S. senator. TheCenter is proud to house the papers that documentthese politicians’ years of public service and manycontributions to Wyoming and the nation.

The Center’s faculty and staff enjoyed some“firsts” during 2001. For the first time, thanksto UW’s vice president for academic affairs, weawarded grants to a number of university facultyand students who used our collections in theirresearch and classes. Faculty used the grants toprepare classes in Asian history, the history andculture of fly-fishing, and several anthropologycourses. Also, for the first time three facultymembers, Anne Marie Lane, Mark Shelstad,and D.C. Thompson, successfully completedappointments as assistant archivists earning apromotion to associate archivists and receivingextended-term contracts. Today the Center hastwelve faculty members on staff—evidence ofAHC’s importance as a teaching resource at theUniversity of Wyoming.

This report will provide information on howour collections are being used; the increase in thenumber of our patrons, both in the Toppan RareBooks Library and the Owen Wister Western

Writers Reading Room; our generous donors; newlyprocessed collections; and our many outreachactivities. Because of the tragic events of September11, we postponed our annual symposium. It willbe held this spring.

I hope you enjoy reading the report andlearning more about what we do at the AmericanHeritage Center. It has been my privilege to serveas interim director this past year, and I am deeplyappreciative of all the support I received from theUW administration, the board of associates, ourboard of faculty advisors, and the Center’s finestaff and faculty. Without their hard work andenthusiasm for our mission, the Center would notbe the great institution it is today.

MISSION

The American Heritage Center (AHC) is therepository for the University of Wyoming’s

(UW) manuscripts, special collections, andarchives. The AHC collects, preserves, and makesavailable original source materials of historicalsignificance that support the teaching and researchmission of the University of Wyoming.

BOARD OFFACULTY ADVISORS

The Board of Faculty Advisors (BFA) assiststhe AHC in developing its collections to

support the university’s instructional, outreach,and partnership programs with emphasis on inter-disciplinary scholarship. William H. Mooreserved as chairman in the spring semester, and EricSandeen served as chairman for the fall semester.Appointed by UW President Phil Dubois, 2001Board of Faculty Advisors included:

David Brinkman, musicMichael Brose, history (Sept-Dec 2001)Donna Brown, family and consumer sciences

(Sept-Dec 2001)Tom Buchanan, ex officio, vice president

for academic affairsCathy Connolly, women’s studiesCarol Frost, geologyGeorge Gladney, communication and

mass mediaDuncan Harris, English (Sept-Dec 2001)Tamsen Hert, librariesBrian Hosmer, historyMary Lou Larson, anthropology

(Sept-Dec 2001)William Moore, history (Jan-May 2001)Eric Nye, English (Jan-May 2001)Mark Ritchie, artPhil Roberts, history (Jan-May 2001)Eric Sandeen, American studies

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Board of Faculty Advisors

President Warren G. Harding (whitesuit) with Wyoming’s U.S. Represen-tative Frank W. Mondell, circa 1922.Mondell was the founder ofNewcastle, Wyoming, and served asits first mayor in 1899. He served inthe U.S. House of Representatives from1895-97 and 1899-1923.

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ASSOCIATES

The Associates is a support group of theAHC that promotes the Center’s mission of

collecting, preserving, and making available originalsource materials of historical significance. Mem-bership dues provide funding for student interns,exhibit development, and other outreach programssuch as Wyoming History Day and the AHCSpeaker’s Bureau. Board members assist in iden-tifying collections for acquisition and with theCenter’s development efforts. William R. “Bill”Dubois III served as chairman in 2001. Significantevents included:

■ Continued work with the WyomingState Historical Society and the WyomingDepartment of State Parks and CulturalResources to sponsor the Wyoming HistoryDay Program

■ Sponsored the fourth in a series of printscelebrating the history of Cheyenne FrontierDays

■ Welcomed William “Bill” Scarlett and AnnPalen to the board

■ Participated in the inaugural meeting ofthe UW President’s Council, sharing AHC’sfundraising initiatives with the presidents andstaff of all UW colleges and programs

■ Provided representation on the search com-mittee for a permanent AHC director

The 2001 board of directors of the AmericanHeritage Center Associates included:

Francois M. Dickman, LaramieWilliam R. Dubois III, CheyenneLucille Dumbrill, NewcastleCharles Engebretsen, Lost SpringsElizabeth Storer Fassett, CheyenneDavid Foreman, CheyenneDaniel G. Furphy, LaramieAnna Marie Hales, CheyenneHarold Hellbaum, WheatlandPeter S. Illoway, CheyenneDana Metzke, CheyenneAnn Palen, SaratogaWilliam R. Scarlett, IV, JacksonJudy Walker, Denver, ColoradoDuane Woodard, Arvada, Colorado

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Senator Francis E. Warren spoke atWailuku, Maui, as a member of thecongressional party to Hawaii spring1915. Warren served as Wyoming’sgovernor from 1889-90 and its U.S.senator from 1890-93 and 1895-1929.

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ASSOCIATES MEMBERSHIP BY CATEGORYFrancois and

Margaret DickmanCharles and Mary EngebretsenRick EwigDan and Kandi FurphyMartha GonzalezValerie HewittWin HickeyPeter S. IllowayFrances MintonElsa RavenWilliam D. RowleyDuane and Thelma Woodard

Patron($100 – $250)

Col. Gerald M. AdamsAllen and Frances AgnewEdward L. Bakewell IIIGordon M. BakkenKember BarneyMaxine BennettMax BenteleKen and Virginia BohnenblustJeffrey and Lynne CarltonDominick J. Catalano

Lifetime(one-time gift of$5,000 or pledge of$1,000 per year for ten years)

Albert H. GordonJohn and Mary OstlundJerry and Ann PalenFred and Pam RentschlerRobert T. RossWilliam B. and

Robinette RossRoma RouseCarl and Elaine SpencerToni StabileVincent Stabile

Benefactor($1,000 – $5,000)

David BrownJohn and Esther ClayWilliam Scarlett IVJohn and Lynn SimonsPaul VolzJudith B. Walker and

George Hallenbeck

Sustaining($500 – $1,000)

John and Anne AllenPhyllis AtchisonRobert GraffDavid LincicomeCharles and Nancy NevinsHarry C. Sager

Supporting($250 – $500)

Warren and Mary BarkerEli Bebout

Alice ChildsRichard and Jean DaviesDonald and Lois DechantMr. and Mrs. John C. DeckerWilliam Dubois IIILucille DumbrillMargie EarlywineJulian EisensteinLiz and Jeff FassettSid FlemingJim and Jane ForbesMable FordeDavid Noel FreedmanGerald FriedmanLoren and Marjorie GrayKen and Leah GriffinGene and Judith Ann GuernyMary GulliksonJames E. GuschewskyJ. Sloan and Anna Marie HalesHarold HellbaumArthur and Janet HenleyJohn HickeyDan and Judith HinkleRobert HoyerRaymond and Debby HunkinsGloria R. JenningsCharles and Jeanne Jerden

Ray and Hanny JosephsBonnie Jane KesterAmy E. KnowlesWilliam C. LagosStan and Joan LeeRobert MallonRichard and Mary MaturiDana and John MetzkeShannon MoffatF. Taylor and Ruth OstranderVincent and Elinor OstromTerry and Beverly RoarkJeanette O. SagerMary Lou SchleherPeter and Mell SchoeningB. Abbott SparksJames G. StearnsJohn C. StephensHarriet May SternThomas and Marta StroockThyra ThomsonDoris Fogel TravisWilson andAnnie Marie WalthallCharles and Jo Dell WingWayman and Eugenia WingRobert WynnWyoming Stock Growers Assn.

Photo Archivist Leslie Shores sharesimages from the AHC collection withtwo 50-year UW alumni.

Reference Manager Carol Bowers helpsUW Lab (elementary) School studentsin the reading room.

Senator Francis E. Warren (far right)aboard ship as a member of Secretaryof War William Howard Taf t’sdelegation to Hawaii, Japan, andManila, July-September 1905.

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Individual($25 – $100)

Edward AltshulerRodney AngoveFern E. AshbyThomas and Eleanor AtkinsonCharles BeallWilliam BeamanPeter and Marie BernaysEugene and ElizabethBerwangerFloyd and June BishopPhyllis M. BlairMetha E. BlenkarnVera Foss BradshawDedrick and WendyBrittenumLillian BrodatzHuldah BruceHarold and NancyBumguardnerRosemary BurroughsBruce CarrollElise H. ChadwickLarry ClintonPeter CohenSusan Consolo-MurphyJoan Day

Kenneth and Lenore DiemWilliam and Helen DixonRobert H. T. DodsonAnn DorrJohn EberhardNina EngelDale EunsonE. Ken FaulknerBob and VeronicaFearneyhoughCharles and Mary FerrariniGerald FriedWilliam GibsonDaphne GrimesEleanor Wisner GuralJohn and Sandra HallmanRichard HanauDon and Le HanesworthMichael HarrisonA. Erik and Judith HawkinsonCharles HeckelmannLyell Henry Jr.Ralph and Ann HicksReginald HilaireByron HirstJohn and Marion Hitchcock

Sally HutchisonFrank KempRobert and Sandra KiddHoward R. LamarEddie LawrenceAnne LudlowAnne MacKinnonJonita MallonMichelle MaserMary K. MasonBrainerd and Anne MearsMichael MenkinMary MitchellKatelyn MonkAnna Jennette MorrisonDumaresq MoseleyRobert MyersMyrtle NordDorothy PageJohn ParkerGeorge PaulikasH. Steffen PeiserAnthony and Alicia PetersEdward and Zoe PetersenMelanie PflaumRebecca Raulins

David RobertsDuane RoseVictor and Catherine RyanAudrey T. RyderRonald SandeferMiles L. SilbermanFrancis and Betty SimpsonJames and Carole SmithThelma Z. SpinradClaudia StewartSally K. SutherlandGeorge C. TaylorClarke ThomasCarolyn ThompsonRichard L. TowerDavid TruelsonMichael UnsworthFrank van der LindenF. Richard VaughanGeorge VirginesJohn WaggenerDavid and Sharon WalkerThomas E. Ward Jr.Leigh WestJohn and Molly WilliamsMargaret Woods

Assistant Archivist John Waggener assists LaramieHigh School students in the reading room.

Audio-visual Archivist Anne Guzzo (right) gives a pre-sentation to Dave Brinkman’s Music BibliographicClass.

Wyoming Governor Joseph M. Carey(1911-15) earlier served as a U.S.senator from Wyoming (1890-95).

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AHC HONOR ROLLOF CONTRIBUTORS$50,000 and above

Raymond and Debby HunkinsWilliam B. and Robinette RossRobert T. Ross

$10,000 – $15,000Mary I. Edenfield EstateFred and Pam Rentschler

$5,000 – $10,000Kinder Morgan FoundationMajewski Family TrustE. I. Woodbury Estate

$1,000 – $5,000Boehm Charitable TrustExxonMobil FoundationJulienne M. Michel

Up to $1,000Thomas H. DawsonDavid and Christel Walrath

Reference Manager Carol Bowers instructsLaramie High School students.

John B. Kendrick as a U.S. senator,circa 1920. Kendrick served in theWyoming state senate from 1910-14,as governor from 1914-16, and as aU.S. senator from Wyoming from 1917-1933.

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State of Wyoming legislators visit the Toppan RareBooks Library.

CLASSESn AHC faculty Rick Ewig, Ginny Kilander, Mark

Shelstad, and D.C. Thompson taught ArchivesI, II, and III of the archival series offeredthrough the UW history department. Theseries of semester-long classes introducesstudents to the basic theory, management, andpractice of archival and manuscript repositories.

n Carol Bowers, reference archivist, taughtHistory of the American West during the springsemester. The class surveys major events in the19th and 20th century American West andstudents were required to prepare two researchpapers based on relevant topics in the AHCcollections. In the fall Bowers taught the Intro-duction to Public History class with studentsusing AHC collection materials for a numberof class assignments culminating in a researchpaper and a multimedia presentation on someaspect of state or local history.

n The Toppan Library was the location in thespring semester for the sixth History of Books& Reading class, taught by Rare Books CuratorAnne Marie Lane.

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REFERENCE

Reference department faculty membersinstructed more than 100 classes of UW

and public school students, including WyomingHistory Day students in grades six through twelve.In addition to teaching bibliographic and academicclasses, the reference staff handled 5,600 researchrequests, gave public presentations on a variety oftopics, published articles, and participated inAHC’s many outreach activities.

Highlights of collection use included:

n The Wyoming State Historical Society usedAHC photographs in its 2001 award-winningcalendar.

n New York City author Vicky Wilson used theBarbara Stanwyck Collection for a biographyof the actress.

n David Schecter of Monstrous Movie Music isworking with western music from the HansSalter Collection for the Detroit SymphonyOrchestra. The music the Monstrous companyis working on comes from a 1950s televisionshow called Wichita Town.

n UW music faculty members Julia Combs andTheresa Bogard researched oboe and pianomusic from the collections, including thechamber music of Morris Hutchins Ruger.Performances are planned for the College MusicSociety’s Rocky Mountain Chapter meeting tobe held at the AHC in March 2002.

n UW English department faculty memberPaisley Rekdal, taught a poetry class in whichstudents researched AHC collections and wrotepoetry in response to the collections.

Anne Marie Lane, MelanieFrancis, and Carol Bowerspresent materials in their classTeaching with Archives andRare Books.

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Robert D. Carey (left) and John B.Kendrick, circa 1925. Robert Carey(son of Governor Joseph M. Carey)served as governor from 1919-23 andU.S. senator from 1930-37.


n Public television station Thirteen/WNET inNew York, NY will use an image from theThrossel Collection in a book accompanyingtheir six-part television program titled “TheFrontier House” set to air in May 2002.

n The Wind River Historical Center in Duboisis opening a permanent Web exhibit titledHollywood on the Wind: Tim McCoy and theEarly Film Industry in Wyoming. Seven imagesfrom the AHC’s Tim McCoy Collection willbe featured in this exhibit. The exhibit may beviewed at www.windriverhistory.org.

n Images of the University of Wyoming wereincluded in the A&E Biography program,“Dick Cheney: Quiet Authority,” which airedin September.

n Two images from the Jack Benny Collectionwere used in the book Jell-O: A Biography byCarolyn Wyman published in October byHarcourt, Inc. The book includes Benny’spromotional involvement with the Jell-OCompany in the 1940s.

n Three images of Caroline Lockhart areincluded in an online database hosted bythe Women of the West Museum in Denver.The name of the database is “Women of theWest, A-Z” and can be found at www.womenofthewest.org.

n The Nevada State Museum and HistoricalSociety created an exhibit, Cowboy Up! OneHundred Years of Rodeo, which included imagesfrom the Larry Pointer Collection and the J. S.Palen Collection.

n A Canadian film company, Galafilm Produc-tions Inc., will release a six-part documentaryfilm in 2002 titled “Chiefs.” The film includessix images of Crow Indians from the RichardThrossel Collection.

n Two images of Grace Raymond Hebard thathighlight her work with immigrants will beincluded in the book Making Citizens: Race,Citizenship, and Americanization in the West byFrank Van Nuys. The book is to be publishedin 2002 by the University of Kansas Press.

n AHC images of a Wyoming cowboy and of aMexican vaquero were featured in a WyomingPublic Television production, “Resettling theWest: Mexicans in Wyoming,” that aired May2001.

n Luath Press, located in Edinburgh, Scotland,published a book by Robert Gibson in Maytitled Plaids & Bandannas: From HighlandDrover to Wild West Cowboy that included anAHC photo of pioneer Wyoming stockman,John Clay.

n Chris Madson of Wyoming Parks and Wildlifevisited the AHC in April to conduct photo-graphic research on cutthroat trout. The resultwas his article “Retreat: A History of theDecline of Wyoming’s Cutthroats” publishedin Wyoming Wildlife magazine in May whichfeatured images from the Stephen N. LeekCollection.

n The Grace Hebard and John Hunton collec-tions were used by authors Donald Warrin andGeoffrey L. Gomes, in their book Land As FarAs the Eye Can See: Portuguese in the Old West.

n The Forrest J. Ackerman Collection was usedin the summer exhibition Hollywood Imaginesthe Future: Science Fiction Movie Memorabilia,1927-1976. Curated by Scott Boberg, UWArt Museum curator of education, the exhibitused film memorabilia to explore futuristicthemes.

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Nellie Tayloe Ross, America’s andWyoming’s first woman governor,signing her oath of office in Cheyenne,January 1925. With her are her sonsWilliam Bradford (second right) andGeorge (second left).


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Governor Lester C. Hunt, 1943-49,(5th from left) with the University ofWyoming board of trustees in 1944.Hunt also served in the U.S. Senatefrom 1949-1954.


This grants program, funded through the Officeof the Vice President for Academic Affairs,

offers an opportunity for UW faculty, staff, andstudents to pursue independent or collaborativeresearch projects or course and symposia develop-ment, using AHC’s resource material. The follow-ing students and faculty members were awardedgrants in December:

n Art student Ryan J. Bench received a $1,500grant award for his project titled the Paul &Helen Henderson Oregon Trail CollectionStudy. Using the Paul and Helen HendersonOregon Trail Collection, Bench will researchtravel on the Mormon Trail through centralWyoming, specifically focusing on trail routesnear Casper and Rawlins, and produce sevenpaintings that describe and narrate the tremen-dous landscape and view that these pioneersexperienced while traveling through Wyoming.

n Justin White, undergraduate student in art,was awarded $1,500 for his project titledDisappearing Era. Using the Jean LondonCollection, White will create a series ofportraits of London, a silent film actress whoworked in comedy with people like CharlieChaplin and Laurel & Hardy. He plans tohave an exhibition of these paintings on theUW-Laramie campus in the fall 2002.

n Associate Professor of History Adrian A.Bantjes was awarded $1,000 for a new coursetitled Fly-Fishing: History, Culture, Societyusing the extensive collections of rare Britishand American books on fly-fishing from theToppan Library and the archival collections ofthe AHC relevant to the history of fly-fishingin Wyoming and the West.

n Michael C. Brose, assistant professor ofhistory, was granted $2,250 for his course AsiaThrough American Eyes. Archival collectionspertaining to China, Japan, Korea, andVietnam will be used for this upper-divisionor graduate level course. Meeting at the AHC,the students will research a collection andproduce a research paper based on the viewof Asia held by the collection’s creator.

n Assistant Professor of English, Alyson Hagy,received $500 for her project The Writer’s Attic:Writing and Researching Authentic Fiction.Writing students will survey AHC manuscriptcollections and compose a monologue in thevoice of a historical character who witnessedan identifiable historic event to enhance theiroriginal fiction writing skills.

n Michael E. Harkin, associate professor ofanthropology, was awarded $2,250 for his classtitled Teaching Archival Research Methodsfor Ethnohistory. This graduate course willintegrate research in primary documents todevelop students’ research skills and make themmore marketable upon graduation.

n Associate Professor Mary Lou Larson andAssistant Professor Pamela Innes in the anthro-pology department were awarded $1,000 fortheir research in the Dimitri Shimkin Collec-tion for a project titled Shoshone Women’sBeliefs about Mountain Resource Use.Shimkin’s collection includes numerous field-work notebooks that contain information onmany topics and specifically information fromfemale Shoshone informants about women’smovements in the Wind River Range, resourceuse, and belief about the mountains from theearly reservation period to the mid 1930s.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH GRANTS

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U.S. Senator Frank A. Barrett, 1953-59, (second from left) with Col. H.F.Muenter and staff at the Warren AirForce Base, Cheyenne, Wyoming,December 1956. Barrett served in theU.S. House of Representatives from1943-1950 and as Wyoming’sgovernor from 1951-53.

Frank A. Barrett Collection

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The AHC Travel Grant Program offers supportfor travel, food, and lodging to students,

faculty, and scholars outside Wyoming to carry outresearch at the AHC. Applications are due by April15 each year and awarded by a sub-committee of theBoard of Faculty Advisors.

n University of Delaware doctoral candidate,Sven H. Dubie, used the Harold R. Tyler Jr.Collection to study the institutional and legalhistory of the U.S. Department of Justice’s CivilRights Division’s formative years (1957-1968).

n Daniel R. Ernst, professor of law, GeorgetownUniversity Law Center, studied how the Ameri-can legal profession responded to the rise of theadministrative state using the Thurman WesleyArnold Papers.

n Nikolas Kozloff, Ph.D. candidate, OxfordUniversity, examined the environmental historyof the Venezuelan oil boom in Lake Maracaibo,using the H. Harper McKee, William John

Millard, William Connelly, Duke White, JohnDouglas, Chester Cassel, William Newman,and Verner Jones papers.

n Assistant Director of the Gender and Women’sStudies Program, University of Illinois,Chicago, Jennifer Langdon-Teclaw, used theAdrian Scott Papers to study anti-communismpolitics in America.

n Brown University graduate student AlexanderRusso explored the connections and divergencein programming of postwar radio and televisionusing Anne and Frank Hummert, Ozzie andHarriet Nelson, Jerry Seelen, Stanley Niss,Thomas McDermott, Lawrence Marcus, MacBenoff, and Bertram Holland papers.

n The Louis and Richard DeRochemont andJack Glenn Papers were used by JonathanStuart Setliff, Ph.D. candidate at University ofMaryland, to examine the ideological content ofThe March of Time newsreels produced by TimeIncorporated between 1935-1951.

n Professor of History John C. Weaver ofMcMaster University in Canada studied a num-ber of early ranching issues including disputeresolution devised by ranchers in the openrange phase before and after barbed wire andthe ranchers’ responses to homesteaders andspeculators. He examined numerous collectionsincluding the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Asso-ciation, Francis E. Warren, Moreton Frewen,Tom Sun, Bosler Family, Harry D. Richardson,Hiram Kelley, Robert H. Homer, Burton S.Hill, and John W. Kingman collections.

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U.S. Representative from WyomingWilliam Henry Harrison, 1951-55,1961-65, and 1967-69, (right),presented a Native American pipe toPresident Dwight Eisenhower in July1953.

William H. Harrison Collection

ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION

Student employees and interns are a vital part of the arrangement and description department. Studentworker Laura Cowles, an anthropology major, helped organize and list the W.B.D. Gray photographs and

lantern slides of early 20th century Wyoming. A survey project was undertaken to create a basic descriptionof all collections in the AHC. American studies students Cinda Nofziger, Richard Henke, Veronica Pitt,and Shannon Bowen did most of the work of opening boxes and describing the contents. History majorSarah Payne; John Waggener, geography; Melanie Francis, English; and Shannon Bowen, American studies,all processed one or more collections.

In addition to the collections listed here, arrangement and description staff also processed 26 smallcollections.

George Oates Argall, 1884-1986George O. Argall was a mining engineer and editorof mining-related periodicals such as World Miningand World Coal. The collection contains subject files,programs and correspondence from mining symposia(1970-1984); correspondence and memoranda frommining magazines; photographs taken for World Mining;and some drawings and artifacts. 17 cubic feet

Bernard M. Bench Papers, 1941-1989Bernard M. Bench was a geological engineer who special-ized in coal exploration and coalbed testing. The collec-tion includes correspondence with oil companies, reports,and publications regarding Rangely field and other areasin the Rocky Mountain region. 0.45 cubic feet

Bloch Family Papers, 1897-1989Alexander and Blanche Bloch were musicians and com-posers. Alexander was a violinist; his wife Blanche was apianist. Alexander Bloch became conductor of the FloridaWest Coast Symphony at the age of 75. The couple alsotaught and did public service work in New York andFlorida. The collection contains much family correspon-dence including pre-WWI letters between Blanche andAlexander when one or both were studying music inEurope; letters from their son, Alan Bloch, from when hewas a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force duringWWII; and letters from their granddaughter, MeredithBriggs, from the 1960s and 1970s, reflecting the “counterculture.” There are also scrapbooks, manuscripts, photo-graphs, and programs. 14 cubic feet

ACQUISITIONS

Material totaling approximately 810 cubic feet was received in 2001. Important new acquisitionsinclude:

n Henry Wise Hobson (western history)n Wyoming Home Economics Association

(Wyoming history)n J. David Love (geologist)n Corthell Family

(Laramie and Wyoming history)n Ruth L. Finch Powers (UW history)

n Raymond and Deborah Hunkins(Edward S. Curtis prints)

n Sierra Club (Wyoming history)n Victor Lipton (playwright)n Wagon Wheel (Wyoming history)n John Lord Ferguson (World War II)

Allan Harvey Brown Papers, 1950-1997Allan Harvey Brown was a botanist who studied theeffects of weightlessness on plants. The collection containscorrespondence, research files, and articles relating toBrown’s research. 2 cubic feet

G.E. Bruce Norfolk and WesternRailroad Materials, 1872-1986G.E. Bruce was an employee of the Norfolk and WesternRailroad. He collected track charts, rule books, engineerand equipment manuals, artifacts, and other memorabiliahaving to do with the Norfolk and Western and otherconnecting lines. 1.5 cubic feet

N.E. Corthell Family Papers,ca. 1868-1960Nellis E. Corthell (1861-1938) came to Wyoming circa1880. He first joined the Stephen W. Downey law firmin Laramie, Wyoming, later establishing his own practice.N.E. Corthell was an authority on water rights and heldbusiness interests in several Laramie companies. He ownedthe Laramie Boomerang from 1890 to 1911. He marriedEleanor (Nellie) Quackenbush in 1885, and the couplewere the parents of seven children. The collection containsbusiness records, including minutes of the Laramie Boardof Trade; and manuscripts, photographs, and other docu-ments of the Corthell family. 3.5 cubic feet

Cranch Family Papers, 1667-1946Richard Cranch (1727-1811) married Mary Smith, a sisterof Abigail Adams, in 1762. William Cranch (1769-1855)attended Harvard with his cousin John Quincy Adamsand became a lawyer and judge. Christopher PearseCranch (1813-1892) was an author, Unitarian minister,and artist. The papers include correspondence fromfriends and family members, sketchbooks, scrapbooks,and photographs reflecting the lives and interests of fourgenerations of the Cranch Family.8 cubic feet

Leonard Eicholtz Diaries, 1838-1910Leonard Eicholtz was a civil engineer who helped to buildthe Union Pacific transcontinental line (1867-1869). Helater was chief engineer for the Denver Pacific Railway

Company that built the line from Cheyenne to Denver.At the same time he oversaw the construction of a KansasPacific line east from Denver. The collection containsEicholtz’s diaries from the mid-1850s to 1910 that detaildaily events and expenses. 2.5 cubic feet

Francis P. Garvan Papers, 1856-1976Francis P. Garvan was a lawyer and president of theChemical Foundation Inc., which was set up to issuelicenses to United States firms to use German patentsseized during the First World War. The Foundation alsopromoted and encouraged the U.S. chemical industry inother ways. The collection contains extensive files regard-ing chemicals, their use in industry and agriculture,inventions, patents, lawsuits, and promotion in the 20thcentury. The collection also contains some files fromGarvan’s legal practice, including material about the NewYork City Triangle Shirt Waist Factory fire. 240 cubic feet

Diana Gould Scripts, 1974-1986Diana Gould was a television scriptwriter who worked onDynasty, The Berrengers, and Hamburger House. She wasexecutive story consultant for Knots Landing. The collec-tion contains scripts for all these series. 14.5 cubic feet

W.B.D. and Annette B. Gray Papers,ca. 1860-1979W.B.D. Gray and his wife Annette B. Gray wereCongregational missionaries in Wyoming between 1900and 1918. The couple’s missionary work was supportedby slide lectures given to audiences in the East. For thispurpose they took many photographs of small communi-ties and rural areas of the state. The collection containssome correspondence, scrapbooks, and printed materialregarding the Congregational Church and many photo-graphs, slides, and negatives of Wyoming communitiesand of their travel around the state. There are also somephotographs and correspondence pertaining to the Huron,South Dakota, area, where Dr. Gray lived before movingto Wyoming. 8 cubic feet

Truman H. Kuhn Papers, 1918-1989Truman H. Kuhn was a professor of geological engineer-ing at the Colorado School of Mines from 1942 to 1974.He was a consultant to Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Indonesia,

and other foreign governments as an expert on setting upmining and petroleum colleges. The collection includesbiographical material, administrative files on foreignprojects, articles, reports, notes, and speeches of TrumanKuhn, and subject files on the Colorado School of Mines.5 cubic feet

Charles O. Locke Papers, 1917-1973Charles Locke was a journalist, novelist, and playwright.His best-known work was The Hell Bent Kid. The col-lection includes manuscripts, personal and businesscorrespondence, documents regarding a legal suit overliterary property rights, clippings, and miscellaneousmaterials. 11 cubic feet

Edward Payson Mathewson Papers,1890-1936E.P. Mathewson (b. 1864) was a mining engineer whoworked in Colorado, Montana, New Jersey, Mexico, andChile. In 1926 he became a professor at the Universityof Arizona. The collection contains diaries kept byMathewson from 1890 to 1936 and photographs,blueprints, and lecture notes from Mathewson’s teachingexperience at the University of Arizona. 3 cubic feet

Elwood Mead Papers, 1882-1958Elwood Mead was Wyoming’s first territorial (and laterfirst state) engineer from 1888 to 1899. He gained anational reputation for his role in drafting water legisla-tion, and in 1899 he left Wyoming to work for the U.S.Agriculture Department’s irrigation investigations divi-sion. The collection has been revised, adding some photo-graphs to the correspondence, clippings, publications,photo albums, and scrapbooks. 3.25 cubic feet

Edith Monroe Moe and Henry AllenMoe Papers, 1888-1988Henry Moe was the first administrator of the GuggenheimMemorial Foundation, which he headed from 1925 to1963. Edith Moe wrote books on lace and silver andan autobiography, Witness to the Twentieth Century. Thepapers reflect the couple’s personal and professional livesand include correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, photo-graphs, speeches, subject files, and scrapbooks. 37 cubicfeet

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Laurence Moss Papers, 1958-1981Laurence Moss (1935-1999) was a chemical and nuclearengineer who became president of the Sierra Club(1973-74) and chairman of the Task Force on Environ-mental Impact. The collection contains files and researchmaterials on all aspects of conservation and environmentalpollution, including auto emissions, the Sierra Club, theNational Coal Policy Project, and nuclear waste. 37 cubicfeet

Nguyaaen Cao Kay Materials,1965-1987Nguyaaen Cao Kay was a South Vietnamese defenseminister and air force commander during the 1960s andearly 1970s. His friendship with U.S. Air Force ColonelGeorge Budway led to a collaboration between the twomen and journalist Charles J.V. Murphy to produce abook, which was never finished. The collection containstaped interviews with Nguyaaen Cao Kay, Budway, andMurphy; transcripts of speeches; and some printed mate-rial and photographs that were to be used for the book.1.4 cubic feet

William B. Peters Papers, 1927-1984William B. Peters was a soil scientist for the U.S. Bureauof Reclamation for more than 30 years. After retiring fromthe Bureau he worked as a soil specialist for the WorldBank between 1977 and 1984. His work took him fromWyoming to Mexico, the Philippines, South America,Africa, East Asia, Yemen, and Yugoslavia. The collectioncontains files on drainage, irrigation, land classification,rice production, salinity, soil testing, tropical agriculture,and water resources. 21 cubic feet

Richards Family Papers, 1800-1982The Richards Family occupied a notable and sometimescontroversial place in the history of New England, theAmerican South, and the American West. William Jarvis(1770-1859) served as U.S. consul to Portugal underPresidents Jefferson and Madison. Jonas DeForestRichards (1809-1872) moved from Vermont to Alabamain 1865 to operate a cotton plantation and was in thestate’s Reconstruction legislature. DeForest Richards(1846-1903) and Bartlett Richards (1862-1911) were

cattle ranchers in Nebraska and Wyoming, and DeForestRichards was governor of Wyoming (1898-1903). Thecollection contains correspondence (1800-1982), diariesof DeForest Richards (1897-1902), photographs, aswell as documents, research files, and drafts of BartlettRichards Jr., who published a biography of his father,Bartlett Richards. 5 cubic feet

Arthur G. Rippey Papers, 1918-1995Arthur Gordon Rippey Jr. was a prominent Denver,Colorado, businessman. In addition to his work in adver-tising, he was actively involved in collecting antique carsand books. He was particularly interested in the works of18th century British authors Samuel Johnson and JamesBoswell. The collection contains files on Rippey’s life,business, and political interests, as well as files regardinghis automobile and book collections. 17 cubic feet

Frank Robbins Papers, 1946-1995Frank Robbins was a Wyoming rancher who capturedand tamed many of his horses from the wild herds of theRed Desert. He defended the wild herds from removalby those who wished to use their grazing land and devel-oped a breed of his own called the Robbins roans. Thecollection includes a book about Frank Robbins, printsand photocopies of photographs, and a film documentingRobbins’ annual horse roundup. 0.5 cubic feet

Milward L. Simpson Papers, Series I.Law Office Files, 1887-1959Milward Simpson (1897-1993) was a lawyer, legislator,and governor of Wyoming. He became governor in 1955and served until 1959. From 1962 to 1967 he was a U.S.senator from Wyoming. The Simpson Papers are beingprocessed in stages. The first portion, Law Office Files,contains case files and correspondence from Simpson’sprivate law practice. Also included are some personal andfamily papers, material from Simpson’s years on theUniversity of Wyoming’s Board of Trustees, and somepolitical and campaign materials. 70 cubic feet

United Air Lines Flight 409 CrashCollection, 1939-2001On the morning of October 6, 1955, a United Air LinesDC-4 en route from New York City to San Franciscocrashed into a ridge of Medicine Bow Peak killing all 66passengers and crew members. The crash was the worstcivil air disaster in U.S. history to that date. The collec-tion documents recovery and cleanup efforts on the crashsite and includes photographs, news clippings, oral histo-ries, reports, and other material. 0.5 cubic feet

University of Montana, Indian Pride onthe Move Traveling Exhibit Materials,1974-1978Indian Pride on the Move was a traveling exhibit thatfeatured Native American artifacts and images from theDavid T. Vernon Collection. It was curated by Universityof Montana professor Joel H. Bernstein and toured theUnited States in 1976-77. The materials include tourmanagement files and site planning files, planning reports,evaluation reports, and some publicity. 2 cubic feet

Willis Van Devanter Papers, 1879-1966Willis Van Devanter was Wyoming’s first state SupremeCourt justice and eventually came to be an associatejustice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The papers includephotographs of Van Devanter and of his staff and col-leagues, a legal fees book from the 1880s, biographicalmaterial, transcripts of some personal correspondence,printed material, and artifacts. 1 cubic feet

Owen Wister Papers, ca. 1866-1982Owen Wister was a prominent American writer of the late1800s and early 1900s. He is best known as the author ofthe prototypical western novel The Virginian, but he wrotemany other articles, short stories, and novels as well. Hewas also a talented musician and a photographer. The col-lection contains diaries that Wister kept and photographsthat he took during his travels in the West. Wister oftenused these words and images as source material for hiswriting. The collection also includes some manuscriptsand published versions of his shorter works and a smallamount of correspondence. 5.5 cubic feet

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Wyoming State Historical SocietyRecords, 1873-1999The Wyoming State Historical Society was founded in1953. Its first major project was the placement of anEsther Hobart Morris statue in Statuary Hall inWashington, D.C. Other activities included contests,awards, historical treks, and publications. The collectionincludes organizational records, membership ledgers,maps, and audio-visual materials related to the society andits activities. 25 cubic feet

Wyoming Stock Growers AssociationHistory Materials, 1873-1980The Wyoming Stock Growers Association HistoryMaterials consist of correspondence, manuscripts, newsclippings, pamphlets, etc. containing reminiscences of andabout residents and conditions in Wyoming and the Westprimarily before the turn of the 20th century. 1 cubic feet

Wyoming Stock Growers AssociationPhotographs, 1868-1964The Wyoming Stock Growers Association Photographsconsist of photographs that were collected by the WSGAoffice for their historic value. Included are portraits of

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association employees and officials, photographs ofconventions and dedications, of cowboys, ranches, androundups, of famous people and early residents ofWyoming, as well as collections of early photographers’work. 2 cubic feet

John I. Yellott Papers, ca. 1900-1986John I. Yellott was best known for his 30 years of workrelated to solar energy. The papers contain correspon-dence, manuscripts and publications, and patent materialsrelating to Yellot’s solar energy research and other aspectsof his engineering career including development of a gasturbine locomotive. Also included are clippings of letterspublished in the Baltimore Sun containing a debatebetween H. L. Mencken and Yellott’s father, a minister.8 cubic feet

UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES AND RECORDS PROGRAM

The following offices, departments, and colleges had their records (more than 350 cubic feet) examined, inventoried, and analyzed. More than 120 recordsretention schedules were created to help facilitate the dissemination, use, organization, retrieval, retention, and eventual disposition of these records.

n Associated Students of UW (3 recordsretention schedules)

n College of Law (64 records retention schedules)n Faculty Senate (10 records retention schedules)n Office of Student Life (3 records retention

schedules)n Political Science (15 records retention

schedules)n Social Work (3 records retention schedules)n State Veterinary Laboratory (11 records

retention schedules)n University Counseling Center (2 records

retention schedules)n University Libraries (8 records retention

schedules)

Ten collections, totaling 77 cubic feet have beenprocessed and made available for research use by stu-dent assistants art major Tania Flores and historymajor Jennifer Praeuner.

American College Quill Club,Thorn Rune Records, 1915-1952The American College Quill Club was an organizationestablished in American colleges to encourage literaryeffort and criticism. Tryouts for membership were basedon the merit of an original manuscript submitted bypotential members. The collection consists of numerousshort stories and poetry manuscripts used as tryoutmaterial for membership, including announcements,correspondence, membership information, minutes,photographs, poetry, publications, and short stories.2.1 cubic feet

Sigma Alpha Iota, Sigma KappaChapter Records, 1903-1942A professional musical sorority, the UW chapter wasorganized in 1925. Among their activities were weeklymusicals, hosting featured performers, and sponsoringNational Music Week. The collection includes correspon-dence, financial information, history, initiation, installa-tion and membership information, newspaper clippings,photographs, a pledge record, president’s reports, pro-grams, songbooks, yearbooks, and scrapbooks. 2.6 cubicfeet

Sigma Xi, the Scientific ResearchSociety, University of WyomingChapter Records, 1914-1918The society of Sigma Xi was established to encourage andpromote research in the fields of pure and applied science.The collection contains various materials relating to theUW chapter including bulletins, the society’s constitution,correspondence, history, minutes, nominations, andreports. 0.7 cubic feet

Ronald C. Surdam Papers, Papers,1965-1986The collection contains research materials relating toUW geology professor Ronald C. Surdam’s work in GreenRiver, Wyoming, and on Vancouver Island dealing withpetroleum geology and basin analysis. The collectioncontains manuscripts, core sample photographs, andcorrespondence. 4.25 cubic feet

settlement, population, rainfall, training and women asheads of households. 14.02 cubic feet

Carlyle Weiss Papers, 1968-2000From 1968 until his retirement in 2000, Carlyle Weiss wasa professor of the music arts at UW where he directedchoral activities and many regional, national, and interna-tional concert tours. Weiss founded the Wyoming StateChoir and conducted several Japanese choirs while onsabbatical in Japan in 1987. In 1977 Weiss earned theOutstanding Faculty Member Award for his accomplish-ments in expanding knowledge of the music arts. Thecollection contains materials relating to music choirs andorchestra tours and concerts under the instruction ofWeiss, along with scrapbooks, tour slides, letters, news-paper clippings, programs, photographs, and several video,audio and reel-to-reel tapes, and records of musical perfor-mances. 5.64 cubic feet

University of Wyoming, WesleyFoundation Records, 1922-1997This collection contains the records of a Methodist churchstudent organization that served the UW community for

University of Wyoming, AssociatedStudents Records, 1913-2000The records of this UW student governing body includeminutes of meetings, news clippings, photographs, scrap-books, and other materials documenting its involvementin student relations, concerts and convocations, financesand budgets, building design and renovation, teachingevaluations, and other issues.␣ 3.58 cubic feet

University of Wyoming, Dept. of AnimalScience Records, 1874-1982In 1911 the College of Agriculture established the animalhusbandry department to conduct research, training, andexperiments on sheep and wool in cooperation with theAgricultural Experiment Station. The collection containsphotographs, news clippings, scrapbooks, and subject fileson the evolution of the Wyoming wool industry, as well asfleece tests performed from around the U.S. and Australia.There is also correspondence with wool buyers fromaround the globe and correspondence with UW woolprofessor Robert Burns regarding his work in the MiddleEast and China. 7.75 cubic feet

University of Wyoming, Dept. of MusicRecords, 1924-1999The collection contains subject files containing reviews,news clippings and related budgets for performances;programs, scrapbooks, and posters from music festivals,summer camps, and commencement exercises; phono-graph records and audio and videotapes of performances.7.49 cubic feet

University of Wyoming, InternationalStudies Records 1980-1987The collection contains subject files, correspondence,interviews, surveys and studies completed by the depart-ment as part of a U.S. Agency for International Develop-ment project in Somalia from 1983-85. The collectionprovides information on a variety of topics from inter-views conducted in the Somalia Bay Region, concentratingon agriculture, education, family diet and health, familylineage, farming and herd management, fertility and mor-tality, groundwater, menstruation and menopause, nomad

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more than 70 years and includes account books, annualreports, newspaper articles, board minutes, history files,scrapbooks, and photographs documenting retreats,conferences, and other activities. 3.18 cubic feet

Wyoming Water Resources CenterRecords, 1943-1998Created in 1982 by the Wyoming State Legislature andoperated by UW, the WWRC conducted comprehensivewater research on the conservation, development andmanagement of Wyoming water resources. In 1998 theWWRC lost its legislative funding and the Center closedin July of that year. The collection contains reports,correspondence, research projects, grant information andproposals initiated by the WWRC and its UW predeces-sor, the Wyoming Water Resources Research Institute(WWRRI). The materials deal with local and regionalwater issues in collaboration with other organizations ina variety of hydrology and environmental research areas,including groundwater allocations, snow levels, streamflow, air quality, and acid depositions. The collectionalso includes maps and field notebooks on a riparianzone conservation effort for Muddy Creek near Baggs,Wyoming. 28.3 cubic feet

A student’s rendition of Weissdirecting, 1986. CarlyleWeiss Papers

Governor Jack Gage, 1961-63 (right),attended the banquet of the 19th

annual One-shot Antelope Hunt, inLander, Wyoming, 1962 with moviecowboy Roy Rogers and two otherparticipants.

Jack R. Gage Collection

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nFREDERICK AND CLARA TOPPANRARE BOOKS LIBRARY

2,400 visitors to the Toppan Library in 2001 canattest, Clara Toppan has left a lasting legacy at UW.

Highlights of the year included:

n In February Wyoming legislators received aspecial tour of the Toppan Library and a presen-tation on books related to classical Greece andRome.

n UW News Service videotaped Curator Lane’spresentation to a UW pharmacy class for distri-bution to Wyoming television stations and theUW student newspaper, The Branding Iron, ranan illustrated article titled “Rare Books LibraryOffers Rare Chances” in October.

n Curator Lane and student assistant John Perrycompleted a 23-page annotated bibliography of“Books of Jewish Religion, History, and Culturein the Levy Collection of the Toppan Library.”

n Presentations were made to a wide variety ofUW classes, including the departments of art,English, history, music, the College ofPharmacy, and the university studies program.Wyoming middle and high school History Daystudents were introduced to the Toppan Libraryholdings and viewed a book display related tothe upcoming 2002 History Day theme of“Revolution, Reaction, and Reform.”

n In addition to many academic classes, thelibrary also gave presentations to a wide varietyof public groups, including the Albany CountyPublic Library staff; a Laramie, Wyoming,reading club; attendees of the High PlainsDiscipline-Based Education conference; andattendees of the University Flycasters Associa-tion Symposium.

The Toppan Rare Books Library holds morethan 40,000 rare books that are used by UW

students, scholars, and the public for research andenjoyment. Illuminated manuscripts, a papyrusfragment from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, anda cuneiform tablet from Mesopotamia are just someof the treasures found in the Toppan Library that areboth historically important and visually exciting.The core of the Toppan Library is the impressivecollection of fishing, hunting, and British andAmerican literature once belonging to FrederickToppan and given to the university by his widowClara after his death in 1966. In October, the AHClost its dear friend and benefactor Clara Toppan. Alifelong resident of Wyoming and distinguished UWalumna, Clara established and supported this libraryof historically important rare materials that is ateaching collection for classes in history, art, Ameri-can studies, women’s studies, and other programs—both graduate and undergraduate. As the more than

University Flycasters Association members viewed alarge display of Mr. Toppan’s fishing books.

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Governor Jack Gage, 1961-63, (left),with former governor Leslie Miller(1933-39) and U.S. Senator J. J.Hickey, circa 1961. Hickey served asWyoming’s governor from 1959-1961and then as U.S. senator from 1961-62.

J.J. Hickey Collection

nWYOMING HISTORY DAY PROGRAM

Wyoming History Day (WHD) began the yearwith preparations for the seven district and

state competitions, held in March and April. AHCpersonnel served as judges at the district and statelevel, as did numerous others from state govern-ment, including the Wyoming Department of StateParks and Cultural Resources (SPACR), UW, andthe Wyoming State Historical Society (WSHS).

It was due in large part to the efforts of indi-viduals from each of these entities that the statecontest, held in Laramie on the UW campus, wassuch a success. Despite a one-week delay causedby a spring snowstorm, more than 400 students,teachers, and parents participated in the event.Almost 30 special awards were distributed to stu-dents, including scholarships sponsored by theWSHS and the UW Office of Academic Affairs.

In June Victoria Murphy, WHD state coordi-nator, accompanied a delegation of first and secondplace student winners from Wyoming to NationalHistory Day at the University of Maryland atCollege Park. Wyoming students represented theirstate well, with Sarah Wolff from Cheyenne placingfifth in senior individual exhibits and Kyle Washutof Casper winning a special national award forpresidential history.

Thanks to continuing support from the AHCBoard of Associates, the WSHS, and SPARC, aswell the ExxonMobil Foundation, and an addi-tional grant from the Kinder Morgan Foundation;WHD was able to expand outreach efforts for thisprogram year. The popular Workshops Series beganwith the third annual WHD Teacher Workshop inCasper on October 19. More than 40 educatorsfrom throughout the state participated in the one-day clinic, which featured presentations by Rick

Ewig, AHC interim director, as well as MarianneKamp from the UW history department andveteran History Day teachers Pat Green and MaryBeth Peden from Natrona County High School.In November and December almost 300 studentsfrom across Wyoming traveled to the AHC toparticipate in student workshops and to conductresearch.

The 2002 Wyoming State History Day contestis scheduled for Monday, April 15 on the Laramiecampus. In addition to competing for the chanceto represent Wyoming at the national contest,students will again have the chance to compete fornumerous awards and scholarships, thanks to thecontinuing generosity of many special awardsponsors. Three new special awards will be given in2002 sponsored by the Alan K. Simpson Institutefor Western Politics and Leadership, the LuciusBurch Center for Western Tradition in Dubois,and the UW Department of History.

Rick Ewig congratulates winners at the WyomingHistory Day state contest in April.

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U.S. Senator Gale McGee 1959-1977, (left), with President Lyndon B.Johnson, 1966.


nALAN K. SIMPSON INSTITUTEFOR WESTERN POLITICS AND LEADERSHIP

In February, Kim Winters was hired as the firstarchivist of the Alan K. Simpson Institute of

Western Politics and Leadership. Winters earneda master’s degree inAmerican studies atUW. During hergraduate studiesWinters worked as astudent assistant at theAHC arranging anddescribing collections,writing finding aids,preparing a guideto Native Americancollections held at theCenter, and producingan exhibit aboutmusician Larry Adler.She earned her B.A.degree in Americanstudies and literaturefrom Liverpool JohnMoores University. Winters has taught classeson the Laramie campus in American studies andwomen’s studies and is an adjunct faculty memberin the American studies program.

The Simpson Institute was created in 2000thanks to the vision of Julienne Michel, a UWbenefactor and friend of former Senator Simpson

and his wife, Ann. The institute is a program ofthe AHC that promotes the use of AHC collectionsdocumenting the history of Wyoming and the

West. Currently itprocesses collectionsand assists in acquiringnew collections ofprominent individualsand organizations thathave provided political,economic, social, orcultural leadership inthe Rocky Mountainregion.

The arrangementand description ofthe first series of theMilward L. SimpsonPapers, which detailsSimpson’s life as anattorney in Cody,Wyoming, has been

completed. This material is now available forresearch use. Work is underway in both the secondseries, detailing Simpson’s time as Wyominggovernor, and the third series, which containspapers relating to Simpson’s career as a U.S. senator.Material in the second and third series is availablefor research use with the written permission of theSimpson family.

Al and Ann Simpson with Julienne Michel (left)

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Former Governor and U.S. SenatorMilward Simpson with Secretary ofState Thyra Thomson, and formerGovernor and Director of the U.S.Mint, Nellie Tayloe Ross (right) inCody, Wyoming, 1972. Simpsonserved as governor from 1955-59 andU.S. senator from 1962-67. Thomsonserved as Wyoming’s secretary of statefrom 1962-1986. Ross wasWyoming’s governor from 1925-27and director of the U.S. Mint from1933-1953.

Thyra Thomson Collection

OUTREACH ACTIVITIESAHC Web Page

The AHC Web site, now consisting of morethan 500 pages, was revised, maintained, and

updated in 2001. New additions include severalinventories and retention schedules, an onlinequestionnaire, a research request form, sections forthe Board of Associates and the Alan K. SimpsonInstitute for Western Politics and Leadership, aphotograph of the month, a list of new items inthe AHC catalog, a site index, and updates forWyoming History Day. In collaboration with theUW Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning,two videos of AHC exhibits were also created andmounted on the AHC Web site, along with a digitalversion of the Majewski lecture. The AHC site wasvisited more than 240,000 times in 2001, makingit one of the most visited sites on the UW adminis-trative Web server. The AHC’s Web site URL iswww.uwyo.edu/ahc.

Exhibitsn More than 13,000 people viewed The Bozeman

Trail Diaries of Robert Dunlap Clarke at theFt. Laramie National Historic Site and theMeeteetse Museum in 2001. Other AHC trav-eling exhibits were shown in Wyoming at theAnna Miller Museum in Newcastle, The PineBluffs Heritage Society in Pine Bluffs, and theFossil County Museum in Kemmerer.

n The Department of Family and Consumer Sci-ences in partnership with the AHC presentedThe Coat Couture Collection IV: Art to Wear, anexhibit that showcased student projects fromDonna Brown’s Fiber Arts class. The exhibitwas on display from May until August.

n Shoshone leader Chief Washakie was the focusof an exhibit curated by AHC Interim

Majewski Lecture

Brian Frehner, the 2001 Bernard L. MajewskiFellow, presented “Oil on the Mind: The Nine-

teenth Century Context of Petroleum Geology” atthe AHC on October 11. A Ph.D. candidate inhistory from the University of Oklahoma, Frehnerdiscussed the beginning of the modern oil industryand its slow response to new methods of locatingunderground oil reserves.

The Majewski Fellowship was established in1996 through the efforts of Teresita Majewski tohonor her father, the late petroleum industrypioneer Bernard L. Majewski. A generous gift byBernard’s late wife Thelma established the MajewskiFellowship that is awarded annually to an outstand-ing scholar to conduct research in AHC collections.

Interim Director Rick Ewig (left) with MajewskiFellow Brian Frehner

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Wyoming Governor Mike Sullivan(1987-1995) loaned his signaturecowboy hat to a youngster, n.d.

Michael Sullivan Collection

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Director RickEwig. Washakiethrough the Lensof Time examined different imagesand impressionsof Washakiethroughouthistory and today.The exhibit wason display in theUW Art Museumduring the fallsemester.

n Author MaryO’Hara, whowrote MyFriend Flickawas among fourwomen writers profiled in the photo exhibitWit, Wisdom, and Willfulness: A Selection ofWyoming Women Writers. Curated by PhotoArchivist Leslie Shores, the exhibit was part of

the AHC’s Women’s History Month celebra-tion in March.

n The AHC again participated in the annualUW Resource Fair with an exhibit AmericanHeritage Center, An Information Resource andAHC staff spoke with students about thevariety of resources available at the AHC.

n In conjunction with the Wyoming EnglishConference’s panel discussion “ReportingTrauma,” in June the AHC mounted anexhibit on the Matthew Shepard tragedy.

Cheyenne Frontier Days Print

A1934 print by artist Frank Lewis for the 38th

annual Cheyenne Frontier Days event was thefourth in a series of prints offered by the AHC tocelebrate Cheyenne Frontier Days and the westerncollections of the AHC. Limited to 101 prints, theimage was from the Robert D. Hanesworth Collec-tion, and was signed by Gov. Jim Geringer, UWPresident Philip L. Dubois, and CFD ChairmanDale Von Krosigk. The AHC is a center for thestudy of Wyoming and the West and houses manyitems pertaining to the history of Cheyenne Fron-tier Days.

Archives Week

The AHC celebrated Archives Week on November 13 and 14. “Archives Week:

Where the Action Is!” focused on the AHC’s exten-sive 20th century American culture collections.Presentations included “The Politics and Cultureof Anti-Communism” by William Howard Moore,UW history department; “Larry Adler: It Ain’tNecessarily So” by Kim Winters, AHC SimpsonInstitute archivist; “Cartoon Music Constructions:The Compositions of Carl Stalling” by AnneGuzzo, AHC audio-visual archivist; and “TheRemarkable Claims of Fritz Lang” by RichardHenke, AHC student archivist.

Carol Bowers and Ginny Kilander share informa-tion about the AHC with UW President PhilDubois (left) and students during Family Weekend.

Masterwork of ChiefWashakie, bronze, by DaveMcGary

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Governor Mike Sullivan with schoolchildren, n.d.

Michael Sullivan Collection

nConcerts

The spring and fall concert series continued in2001 with performances by department of

music faculty and students. Trio for Oboe, Viola,and Piano from the collection of Morris HutchinsRuger and selections from Old Time Fiddling inWyoming from the Grace Raymond Hebard Collec-tion were performed in the spring. The Faculty JazzQuartet and UW Pan Band were featured duringthe fall concert series. Department of music facultyJulia Combs and David Brinkman organized thepopular concert series.

diaries and letters of soldiers and homesteadershoused at the AHC. Coordinated by Audio-VisualArchivist Anne Guzzo and the AHC reference staff,the holiday celebration was in collaboration withthe Department of Music.

Archives and Old Lace:A Celebration of Women’s History

A celebration of Women’s History Month inMarch focused on how AHC collections can

further research and understanding of women’s his-tory to people throughout the state. The two-dayevent included lectures, music, and food. A spin-ning demonstration was followed by a lecture onquilt making traditions and women’s clothing. AVictorian Tea complete with food created fromhistoric cookbooks complemented a display ofbooks by and about women from the Toppan RareBooks Library. AHC staff Ronda Frazier gave anillustrated talk on actress June Knight Buehler,and faculty member D. C. Thompson presenteda lecture titled “Amalia Post and Women’s Rightsin the 1870s.” Poetry readings and a music concertconcluded the celebration.

Tour of historic Greenhill Cemetery

The graves of early day Laramie citizens werehighlighted on a tour through Laramie,

Wyoming’s, Greenhill Cemetery in October. AHCstaff members Carol Bowers, Melanie Francis, AnneGuzzo, Leslie Shores, D. C. Thompson, and JohnWaggener were among the tour guides who relatedthe histories of the citizens—from communityleaders to prostitutes—who shaped the social,economic, and political life of Laramie beginningin the late 1860s.

UW Department of Music faculty perform at theNovember 16 concert.

A Holiday Celebration

The UW Flute Choir, Trombone Choir, andthe Laramie High School Plainsmen Singers

were featured during the December 11 eveningholiday celebration at the AHC. More than 100participants listened to the first-hand accounts ofChristmases on the Wyoming frontier from the

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NEW STAFFA native of Centennial, Wyoming,

Melanie Francis holds bachelor’s andmaster’s degrees in English from UWand a certificate in education from theUniversity of Oxford, England. Anelementary school teacher in England,Melanie has also taught English com-position, literature, humanities, andmass media and communications forUW, the University of Kentucky, andLaramie County Community College, Wyoming.

Melanie is a graduate of AHC classes Archives I andII and the History of the Book and worked part-time inthe Toppan Rare Books Library and manuscript process-ing sections before her appointment to the AHC facultyas a reference archivist.

Anne M. Guzzo joined the staffin September as a reference archivistspecializing in audio-visual materials.Anne received her bachelor’s degreefrom the University of New Mexicoin clarinet performance, her master’sdegree in 20th century music historyfrom the University of California,Santa Cruz, and is completing herPh.D. in music composition andtheory at the University of California, Davis. Anne alsoteaches music composition in the UW music department.

Her research interests include the music of the 20th

century American popular culture figures, including thecartoon music of Carl Stalling, composer for early Disneyanimations and the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes andMerrie Melodies, whose collection ishoused at the AHC.

William Hegner joined theadministrative staff in July as a senioroffice assistant. He holds a bachelor’sdegree in management and computerinformation systems from Missouri’sPark University and is a 20-year veteranof the U.S. Air Force.

Kenton G. Jaehnig was hired inJune as the new assistant archivist inprocessing. Kent holds a bachelor’sdegree in history from the Universityof Pittsburgh and his master’s degreein history, with a concentration inarchives and museum administration,from Wright State University.

Before coming to Wyoming,Kent worked as a project archivist atthe Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American JewishArchives, located on the campus of Hebrew Union Col-lege in Cincinnati, Ohio.

John Waggener brings yetanother dimension of research exper-tise to the AHC with his emphasison maps, transportation history, andhistorical geography. A UW graduatewith a bachelor’s degree in elementaryeducation and geography and amaster’s degree in geography, John’sthesis was on the historical develop-ment of the Wyoming road map.John also studied archives and publichistory with AHC Interim Director Rick Ewig and UWHistory Professor Phil Roberts.

John, a fifth generation Wyoming native from GreenRiver, formerly worked at the Sweetwater County Histori-cal Museum and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center priorto joining the AHC staff in August. John will answerresearch requests, assist in processing, and perform otherduties at the AHC.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIESCarol Bowers • Manager of Reference Services■ Served as a board member of the Albany County

Historical Society■ Published “School Bells and Winchesters: The Sad

Saga Of Glendolene Myrtle Kimmell” in Annals ofWyoming, and “‘Chinese Warren’ and the Rock SpringsMassacre” (Reprint) in Sino-American Relations

■ Taped a segment on the economic aspects of prostitu-tion in end-of-tracks towns along the transcontinental

route for American Experience, to be aired in October2002 and taped a segment of the Double-Spear RanchRadio Show, discussing an article on GlendoleneKimmel, which appeared in Annals of Wyoming

■ Presented several talks including “Laramie’s SoiledDoves” for the annual conference of the WyomingConfederated Woman’s Clubs, “The Secret Scrapbookof a Soiled Dove” for the Laramie Woman’s Club, and“Using Primary Documents for Research and Recre-ation” to the Laramie Lyceum

■ Served as a guide for the historic Greenhill Cemeterytour in October

Rick Ewig • Interim Director■ Presented talks on Nellie Tayloe Ross and the Union

Pacific Railroad to groups in Powell, Laramie, andCheyenne

■ Curated the exhibition, “Washakie through the Lensof Time” presented at the UW Art Museum

■ Served as a judge at the Wyoming History Day statecompetition

■ Presented a program at the Wyoming History Dayteacher’s workshop in Casper

■ Received the Wyoming State Historical Society’sAnnual Services Award

■ Attended “Protest and Resistance: An AmericanTradition,” an educational workshop sponsored by theHeart Mountain Wyoming Foundation and the annualtrek of the Wyoming State Historical Society

Melanie Francis • Assistant Reference Archivist■ Served as secretary for the Albany County Historical

Society■ Poetry reader for Archives and Old Lace, Women’s

History Month celebration in March and A HolidayCelebration in December

■ Presented with Carol Bowers and Anne Marie Lane“Teaching English with Archives and Rare Books,”for the Wyoming Conference on English in June and“Teaching with Archives and Rare Books,” for WilliamRobertson Coe Library faculty in December

■ Served as children’s literature reviewer for theWyoming Center for the Book

■ Served as guide for the historic Greenhill Cemeterytour in October

Melanie Francis

Anne Guzzo

Kent Jaehnig

John Waggener

William Hegner

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Anne Guzzo •␣ Audio-visual Archivist■ Attended the College Music Society national meeting

in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in November and presentedan exhibit on AHC music collections

■ Presented a lecture demonstration, “Cartoon MusicConstructions: The Compositions of Carl Stalling”during Archives Week in November

■ Taught Music Composition as a adjunct musicdepartment faculty member


Kenton Jaehnig • Assistant Arrangement andDescription Archivist■ In the spring attended the Society of Ohio Archivists

meeting and a workshop on MARC-AMC

Ginny Kilander • Assistant Reference Archivist■ Participated in the class, History of European and

American Papermaking, at the University of VirginiaRare Books School in June

■ Attended Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists fallmeeting

■ Submitted articles on John H. Finfrock and FrankJack Fletcher, based on their collections at the AHCto Encyclopedia USA

Anne Marie Lane • Curator of Rare Books■ Participated in a book collecting panel at the first

Wyoming Bookfest, in Cheyenne, Wyoming■ Published 13 book reviews in the Library Journal and

an illustrated article, “Educational Leadership in Utah:Brigham Young’s Promotion of the Deseret Alphabet,”in Heritage Highlights

■ Appointed to the AHC director national searchcommittee

■ Served as secretary of the Academic & Special LibrarySection of the Wyoming Library Association

■ Served as co-chair of the Rare Books Security Commit-tee of the American Library Association at the annualsummer conference, in San Francisco, CA

■ Continued as an advisory board member for theWyoming Center for the Book, and served as one ofthree state judges for the annual national “Lettersabout Literature” contest

■ Attended the annual conference of the Society forthe History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, andcontinuing education sessions on teaching book historyin Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, in July

■ Gave a slide presentation at the UW Art Museum aboutthe Egyptian-related materials in the AHC’s ColketCollection

Mark Shelstad •␣ Information Manager■ Received the Midwest Archives Conference’s 2001 New

Author Award for best article in a two-year cycle of itsjournal by a previously unpublished author

■ Gave presentation to the Fremont County Historical So-ciety on Buffalo Soldiers for the AHC Speaker’s Bureau

■ Served on the Society of American Archivists manuscriptrepositories section steering committee, committee onethics and professional conduct, publications board, andas the Midwest Archives Conference Newsletter editor

■ Served as a grants reviewer for digitization projectsfor the Institute of Museum and Library Services

■ Served on the AHC director and university librariessystems librarian search committees

■ Attended the Preservation and Access for ElectronicCollege & University Records conference (ECURE)in Phoenix, Arizona, and the annual conference of theSociety of American Archivists in Washington, D.C.presenting a paper on the archives and archivists listservand electronic discussion groups

Leslie Shores •␣ Photo Archivist■ Presented the lecture “In the Right Place: Crow Indian

Photographer, Richard Throssel,” to the Albany County,Wyoming, Historical Society, in November

■ Served as a Wyoming History Day judge at the Hanna,Wyoming, district and the state competitions in thespring


■ Attended a Colorado Digitization Project workshopsponsored by the UW Libraries in March and “Pre-serving Photographs in a Digital World,” a workshopconducted by the George Eastman House InternationalMuseum of Photography and Film and the Image Per-manence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology,Rochester, NY, in August

D.C. Thompson •␣ Manager of Arrangementand Description■ Presented the lecture “Mama’s Gone to Sit on the

Jury,” during the AHC’s Archives and Old Lace eventin March and “It Is My Duty to Write,” in July to theBureau of Land Management, Cheyenne, Wyoming

■ Spoke on preserving historic documents to the AlbanyCounty, Wyoming, Genealogical Society in April andparticipated in a panel discussion about the MatthewShepard tragedy during the Wyoming Conference onEnglish in June

■ Served as a Wyoming History Day judge at the Hanna,Wyoming, district and the state competitions in thespring


John Waggener •␣ Assistant Archivist■ Received the Wyoming State Historical Society’s Lola

Homsher Grant to Promote Wyoming History topublish his thesis “Putting Wyoming on the Map:The History of the Official Wyoming Highway Map”

■ Served as an assistant editor for Annals of Wyoming inthe spring

■ Spoke on the history of the Wyoming highway map tothe Wyoming Association of Professional Historians attheir annual meeting in March and the Albany CountyHistorical Society in April

■ Guided two historical walking tours of downtownLaramie for the Laramie Plains Museum in July


Kim Winters •␣ Simpson Institute Archivist■ Presented the talk, “Larry Adler: It Ain’t Necessarily

So” during AHC’s Archives Week in November andthe talk “Beaver Dick: The Man, The Historian,” tothe Albany County, Wyoming, Historical Society inOctober

■ Edited the summer issue of Heritage Highlights■ Served as a Wyoming History Day judge at the Hanna,

Wyoming, district and the state competitions in thespring

■ Moderated Archives and Old Lace, a two-day confer-ence in celebration of Women’s History Month

Alan K. Simpson served as a U.S.senator from Wyoming from 1978-1996


n ROSTER OF STAFFAdministrative StaffJudy P. Bangerter, office assistantStephen A. Bangerter, staff assistantRick Ewig, interim directorWilliam Hegner, office assistant seniorBarbara L. Jesse, accounting associateVicki L. Schuster, office assistant seniorSally K. Sutherland, executive staff assistant

Operations FacultyCarol L. Bowers, manager of reference servicesMelanie Francis, assistant reference archivistAnne Guzzo, audio-visual archivistKenton Jaehnig, assistant arrangement and

description archivistGinny L. Kilander, assistant reference archivistAnne Marie Lane, curator of rare booksMark L. Shelstad, information managerLeslie Shores, photo archivistD. Claudia Thompson, manager of arrangement

and descriptionJohn Waggener, assistant archivistKatharine I. Winters, Alan K. Simpson Institute archivist

Operations StaffRonda Frazier, archives assistant in arrangement

and descriptionJohn E. Hanks, archives specialist in arrangement

and descriptionWilliam L. Hopkins, coordinator of archival servicesMary Ann Meyer, archives associate in accessioningLoreley A. Moore, archives assistant in arrangement

and descriptionVictoria S. Murphy, state coordinator, Wyoming

History DayRick Walters, photographic technicianAnthony R. Wickersham, computer programmer senior

Part-time StaffColby AlexanderMarcia Ann BrownCharles BurgessMary BurgessMary G. DaviesJenny L. FrancisTania FloresRussell J. FruitsCarolyn R. GaspariKevin R. HancockAndrew J. KaiserKate KaltenheuserKimberly KarstedScot KolkmanElizabeth D. KordusKelly A. KorpitzMegan LutzMelissa MeeksRichard MilesDylan T. MillironDusti MitchellStephanie D. Nation

Nicole R. NicholsonJohn R. PerryJennifer PraeunerVeronica T. PittNorma ReinersHeather F. RowlisonSarah SeyfangJohn ShaferMichael R. ThompsonSteven J. White

VolunteersJim ErdelyiElder Joshua ButtonElder Craig ChurchillEric CoatesKyle GarrettElder Thaddeaus HymasKing B. “Kenny” JonesElder Lakanga LatuElder Jeremy SillitoRansom Sturdevant

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State Appropriation 1%

Gifts 10%

Associates 6%

Foundation Accounts

13%

Local Accounts 7%

Grants 2%Coe

Endowment 13%

Kuhn Endowment

35%

Anaconda 2%

User Services 11%

State Appropriation 1%

Gifts 23%

Associates 16% Coe

Endowment 43%

User Services

17%

Gifts 9%Associates 2%

Foundation Accounts 4%

Local Accounts 6%

Grants 1%

Coe Endowment

22%

Kuehn Endowment

8%Anaconda

1%

User Services7%

State Appropriation

41%

American Heritage Center Operating BudgetJuly 1, 2000 – June 30, 2001

IncomeSources AmountState Appropriation $ 482,293.00User Services $ 77,806.00Anaconda $ 6,597.00Kuehn Endowment $ 96,694.00Coe Endowment $ 256,760.00Grants $ 4,800.00Local Accounts $ 76,007.00Foundation Accounts $ 46,423.00Associates $ 26,717.00Gifts $ 101,415.00

TOTAL $ 1,175,512.00

Operation/Fund Salary Program Equipment TOTALState Appropriation $ 479,784.00 $ 2,361.00 $ 148.00 $ 482,293.00User Services $ 42,779.00 $ 31,369.00 $ 3,658.00 $ 77,806.00Anaconda $ 2,188.00 $ 4,409.00 $ 6,597.00Kuhn Endowment $ 96,694.00 $ 96,694.00Coe Endowment $ 209,586.00 $ 37,701.00 $ 9,473.00 $ 256,760.00Grants $ 4,800.00 $ 4,800.00Local Accounts $ 55,951.00 $ 20,056.00 $ 76,007.00Foundation Accounts $ 8,418.00 $ 38,005.00 $ 46,423.00Associates $ 4,905.00 $ 18,312.00 $ 3,500.00 $ 26,717.00Gifts $ 67,588.00 $ 28,853.00 $ 4,974.00 $ 101,415.00

TOTAL $ 871,199.00 $ 282,560.00 $ 21,753.00 $ 1,175,512.00

Sources of Income

Expenses

Operation andProgram Expenses

Salary Expenses

Equipment Expenses

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Gifts 8%Associates 1%Foundation Accounts 1%

Local Accounts 6%

CoeEndowment

24%

Anaconda 1%User Services 5%

StateAppropriation

55%

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