Detail View: Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files: WPA Bio 1034

Title: 
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Harry Williams
Collection Name: 
WPA Collection
Collection Number: 
WPA Bio 1034
Item Description: 
Williams, Harry - Biographical information for Harry Williams; "Harry Williams", The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash., n.d.; "The Boyhood of Harry Williams", interviewed by I. Harry Williams, Basin, Wyo., n.d.; "My Life at 'Day Island' Woodyard [Life of Harry Williams Con't., presumably by I. Harry Williams], n.d.
Creator: 
Stella G. Scanlon
Location: 
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date: 
1938 December 5
Link to Finding Aid: 
https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
Notes: 
born: May 25, 1864, in the Allegheny Mountains (N. Y.)
Notes: 
State Patrolman (Vancouveur, Wash.)
Notes: 
died:
Notes: 
buried:
Notes: 
early education (1872 - N. Y.)
Notes: 
Gen. Custer's Last Stand battle
Notes: 
on the trail experiences near the Devil's Tower
Notes: 
becoming a cowhand at the Bosler ranch (Wyo. - Nov. 23, 1878 [or 1876?])
Notes: 
resuming the trail to Lower Powder River (Apr. 20, 1880)
Notes: 
met Alf Defendiver, Joe LaFors, Butch Cassidy and Jew Jake
Rights: 
No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
Type: 
Text