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Title:
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Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Jim White
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Collection Name:
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WPA Collection
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Collection Number:
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WPA Bio 1020
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Item Description:
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White, Jim - Biographical information for James "Jim" White; "Why It Is Called White Creek", Basin Republican Rustler, Nov. 26, 1936;
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Date:
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Undated
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Link to Finding Aid:
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https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
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Notes:
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born:
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Notes:
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White Creek, named for subject, victim of "dastardly" unsolved murder [date unk.]
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Notes:
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arrived Big Horn Basin (o/a 1882)
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Notes:
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buffalo hunter - 2 partners skinned dead animals for him
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Notes:
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prospector
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Notes:
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died: ca. 1883-1885 - his murdered body found by Billy Gleed and Ans Anderson in his dugout near White Creek, named for the victim
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Notes:
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buried: Gleed and Anderson carried White's body ". . . about a hunred yards east of the dugout and buried it."
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Rights:
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No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
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Type:
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Text
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