COLLECTION NAME:
Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files
Record
Title:
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Jim White
Collection Name:
WPA Collection
Collection Number:
WPA Bio 1020
Item Description:
White, Jim - Biographical information for James "Jim" White; "Why It Is Called White Creek", Basin Republican Rustler, Nov. 26, 1936;
Date:
Undated
Notes:
born:
Notes:
White Creek, named for subject, victim of "dastardly" unsolved murder [date unk.]
Notes:
arrived Big Horn Basin (o/a 1882)
Notes:
buffalo hunter - 2 partners skinned dead animals for him
Notes:
prospector
Notes:
died: ca. 1883-1885 - his murdered body found by Billy Gleed and Ans Anderson in his dugout near White Creek, named for the victim
Notes:
buried: Gleed and Anderson carried White's body ". . . about a hunred yards east of the dugout and buried it."
Type:
Text