Collection Number
WPA Bio 50
Item Description
Becker, Mrs. Sara - Biographical information for Mrs. Sara Rawlins Becker; "The Indian Trader - Mrs. Sara Becker", no published source
Location
Lander (Wyo.)
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 51
Item Description
Beckwith, A. C. - Biographical information for Asahel Collins Beckwith, Frank Beckwith; "A. C. Beckwith" bio sketch; "Scientific Ranching: Does It Pay to Raise the Best Stock", Uinta Chieftain, Evanston, Wyo., Jul. 11, 1885; "Office Seeks the Man", periodical n/a, Cheyenne (Wyo,), 1893; "Local Items", Uinta Chieftain, Evanston, Wyo., Feb., 14. 1885; Apr. 11, 1885; Jun. 16, 1885, Jul. 4, 1885; Aug. 22, 1885; "Office Seeks the Man", publication (n/a), 1893 [also see subject's ". . . lenthy obit", Evanston News-Register, Feb. 1, 1896, page 3.
Location
Evanston (Wyo.)
Date
1936 September 12
Collection Number
WPA Bio 52
Item Description
Beemer, Mamie Ensor - Biographical information for Mrs. Mamie
Ensor Beemer; "Mrs. H. D. Beemer"; "H. D. Beemer" by Ichabod S. Bartlett from “History of Wyoming”, Vol. II, pp. 567-578
Location
Laramie (Wyo.)
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 53
Item Description
Belcher, Fred - Biographical information for Frederick Lincoln Belcher; "Fred L. Belcher - Blacksmith", interviewed by Minnie A. Rietz for "Stories of Pioneer Life", no published source; Mrs. Fannie Belcher
Location
Wheatland (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 23
Collection Number
WPA Bio 54
Item Description
Bell, David - Biographical information for David Vinton Bell; "David V. Bell", by Ichabod S. Bartlett from “History of Wyoming”, Vol. II, pp. 202-204; "David V. Bell", from Annals of Wyoming by Mrs. Cyrus Beard, Vol. II, pp. Vol. II, pp. 233-235 [also see "Funeral Services for David V. Bell Will Be Wednesday", Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Jun. 15, 1943:
Location
Torrington (Wyo.)
Date
1938
Collection Number
WPA Bio 55
Item Description
Bellamy, Charles - Biographical information for Charles Bellamy; Mrs. Mary
"Mollie" Godat Bellamy; "Woman Member of Legislature", Woman's National Daily, Oct. 29, 1911, "A Woman of Achievements: Mary G. Bellamy", "Mary G. Bellamy, First Woman Representative Elected in Wyoming", Rawlins Republican, Sep. 1913; "Indian History" by Jessie L. Duhig
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 56
Item Description
Beltz, Elmer - Biographical information for Elmer T. Beltz; "Hon. Elmer T. Beltz"; Progressive Men of Wyoming, pp. 315-316
Location
Torrington (Wyo.)
Date
1938 December 20
Collection Number
WPA Bio 57
Item Description
Benedict, George - Biographical information for George A. Benedict; Susie S. Benedict
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 58
Item Description
Benedict, Milton - Biographical information for Milton Benedict, Mrs. Jessie Parsons Benedict, Rice Hudsonpiller, photos, cutlines
Date
1937 October 27
Collection Number
WPA Bio 59
Item Description
Benson, Mary Ann - Biographical information for Mrs. Mary Ann Hughes "Grandma" Benson; Thomas Humphrey Hughes; "Mary Ann Benson and Her Brother, Thomas Humphrey Hughes" by Alice Mathew Shields for "Stories of Pioneer Life"; "82-Year-Old Local woman Going to School So She Can Become U. S. Citizen", Wyoming Eagle, May 21, 1937; "Thomas Humphrey Hughes", no source, n.d.; "I'm [subject] Proud to Do It," Wyoming Eagle, n.d.; Letters to Mrs. Mary Ann Benson, Cheyenne, Wyo., Sep. 23, 1936, and Thomas Humphrey Hughes, Cheyenne, Wyo., Sep. 23, 1936, from Maude Sholty, dir., Historical Project, State Library, Cheyenne, Wyo.
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 January 26
Collection Number
WPA Bio 60
Item Description
Berry, Charles - Biographical information for Charles Preston "Charlie" Berry; Fannie L. Baugh Berry
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 61
Item Description
Berry, Sam - Biographical information for Sam H. Berry (alias: "He told me his name was not Sam Bery, but that that name was plenty good enough." - true name unknown); "Sam Berry, Outlaw Killed for Money", Wyoming State Journal, Lander, WY, 1929
Location
[Lander (Wyo.), Lander (Wyo.)]
Date
1929
Collection Number
WPA Bio 62
Item Description
Berthurem, Will - Biographical information for William "Will" Bethurem; "Life in the '80's" [draft], no published source; Mrs. May Bethurem
Location
Sheridan (Wyo.)
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 63
Item Description
Bevan, John - Biographical information for John Bevan; "Pioneer Interviews", no published source; "Roy Bevan", no published source
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 64
Item Description
Bishop, L.C. - Biographical information for Loren Clark Bishop; Edith L. Bishop
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 65
Item Description
Black, Joseph - Biographical information for Joseph Arthur "Joe" Black; "Joe Black, Cowboy Attorney" by Edna Chrisman; photo
Location
Pinedale (Wyo.)
Date
1938 December 2
Collection Number
WPA Bio 66
Item Description
Blair, Dan - Biographical information for Dan Blair;
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 67
Item Description
Blair, Emma Jensen - Biographical information for Mrs.. Emma W. [or R.] Jensen Blair; "Mrs. John Blair", no source, n.d.
Location
Rawlins (Wyo.)
Date
1938 November 28
Collection Number
WPA Bio 68
Item Description
Blake, Francis Asbury - Biographical information for Francis Asbury "Grandma" Blake; Clarissa Noyes Shedd Blake
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 69
Item Description
Blake, George - Biographical information for George A. Blake; "George A. Blake, Life in Wyoming in the Nineties" for "Stories of Pioneer Life", no published source
Date
1936 Apr. 9
Collection Number
WPA Bio 70
Item Description
Blake, Sadie Evelena Hale - Biographical information for Sadie Evelena Hale Blake
Location
Basin (Wyo.)
Date
25-Jun-41
Collection Number
WPA Bio 71
Item Description
Blakely, Aregon Missouri Reed - Biographical information for Mrs. Aragon Missouri Reed Blakeley; John Edward Blakely; Minnie M. Blakely
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 72
Item Description
Blakesly, Lou - Biographical information for Lewis William "Lou" Blakesly; "Wyoming Pioneer and County Officer Dead", published in fall, 1926; Mrs. Louella Blakesly
Location
Basin (Wyo.)
Date
1941 May 7
Collection Number
WPA Bio 73
Item Description
Blonde, Mrs. Charles - Biographical information for Mrs. Ada Edwards Florence Blonde, "The Pioneer Country School Teacher", no published source
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 74
Item Description
Blood, Charles - Biographical information for Charles Ulman Blood, "A Veteran Railroader", photo of "Mountain Engine 1200 used in 1883"
Location
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date
1939 February 27
Collection Number
WPA Bio 75
Item Description
Bocker, Charles - Biographical information for Charles William Bocker, "Charles W. Bocker of Laramie Tells of Jim Bridger and the Indian Bird Woman Being Friends"
Location
Laramie (Wyo.)
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 76
Item Description
Bohan, James - Biographical information for James Michael Bohan; Edna Bohan
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 77
Item Description
Bolln, George - Biographical information for George Bolln, "Experiences" by Pauline Muegel Bolln, no published source
Location
Douglas, Wyo.
Date
1938 November 3
Collection Number
WPA Bio 78
Item Description
Bolln, Henry - Biographical information for Henry Joseph Bolln, Elizabeth Williams Bolln [also see Mrs. Bolln's obit: Douglas Budget Feb. 14, 1985
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 79
Item Description
Boots, Emereth - Biographical information for Emereth A. Boots, Mrs. Phebe Alice Boots, "Bringing A Trail Herd North", interviewed by Tacetta B. Walker, no published source
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 80
Item Description
Borral, Frank - Biographical information for Frank Clinton Borrall, "Frank Borrall, A Custer Scout", no published source
Location
Wheatland, Wyo.
Date
1938 December 1
Collection Number
WPA Bio 81
Item Description
Bostleman, Ernest - Biographical information for Ernest O. Bostleman
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 82
Item Description
Boswell, George - Biographical information for George Henry Boswell; "George Boswell, Bordeaux Postmaster", no published source
Location
Wheatland
Date
1938 November 12
Collection Number
WPA Bio 83
Item Description
Bourne, John - Biographical information for John William Bourne, "Member of First Hand-Cart Party Dies", no published source
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 84
Item Description
Boyce, Martin Calvin - Biographical information for Martin Calvin Boyce, Sr.; Louise Marshall Boyce (wife)
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 85
Item Description
Boyd, Stephen - Biographical information for Stephen Boyd; Eliza Stewart Boyd; Bertha Boyd; Mrs. Eliza Stewart Boyd's "Obituary", no published source; Stephen Boyd's "Obituary", Laramie Republican, Oct. 17, 1917, page 1
Location
Laramie, Wyo.
Date
1939 January 30
Collection Number
WPA Bio 86
Item Description
Bragg, Fred - Biographical information for Fred Bragg; Mrs. Laura Ingram Bragg
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 87
Item Description
Bragger, Gottlieb - Biographical information for Gottlieb Braegger; "A Mormon Family", no published source
Location
Lander, Wyo.
Date
1939 Apr. 12
Collection Number
WPA Bio 88
Item Description
Brandon, Charles - Biographical information for Charles Watt Brandon; "C. Watt Brandon, Publisher of the Kemmerer Gazette"
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 89
Item Description
Brawley, James - Biographical information for James Brawley; "Life of James Brawley", no published source [also see "James Brawley", Rock Springs Miner, Mar. 27, 1955]
Location
Rock Springs, Wyo.
Date
1939 February 13
Collection Number
WPA Bio 90
Item Description
Bresnahen, Ann McKay - Biographical information for Mrs. Anna [or Ann] A. McKay Bresnahen; "Reminisences of Mrs. Ann McKay", no published source; "Mrs. L. R. Bresnahen", no published source
Location
Cheyenne, Wyo.
Date
1939 February 25
Collection Number
WPA Bio 91
Item Description
Brice, David - Biographical information for David W. Brice, "David W. Brice True Pioneer", no published source
Location
Wheatland, Wyo.
Date
1938 December 2
Collection Number
WPA Bio 92
Item Description
Bridger, James - Biographical information for James "Jim" Bridger; "James Bridger and His Post", no published source; "1804 - James Bridger - 1881" from "Mrs. Elizabeth Arnold Stone's Uinta County, Its Place in History", pp. 47-57; "James Bridger in Yellowstone Park", "The Valerian, May 21, 1936, Valier, Mont.; "Jim Bridger Not Drunkard", published source not identified, n.d.; "Bridger's Name Found on Rock", published source not identified, n.d.;
"Jim Bridger Left Records in Many Sections of the Country", published source not identified, n.d.; "Jim Bridger" by Olin D. Wheeler, published source not identified, n.d.; "Interesting Facts About Jim Bridger" from "The Bozeman DTdrail, Vol. II, by Hebard and Brininstool"; "Jim Bridger Was Earliest Settler in Carbon Co.", Republican Bulletin, Laramie, Wyo., May 2, 1939; Benjamin T. Carroll obituary, Saratoga Sun, Apr. 10, 1941
Location
Douglas, Wyo.
Date
1939 January 5
Collection Number
WPA Bio 93
Item Description
Bridger, Mrs. James - Biographical information for Mrs. Cora Insala Bridger, "An Ode to an Indian Princess", no published source [also see "An Ode to An Indian Princess {Mother of Virginia Bridger Hahn}, WPA Bios 92 & 93 re Bridger, James "Jim"]
Location
Evanston, Wyo.
Date
1938 December 6
Collection Number
WPA Bio 94
Item Description
Brigham, Frank - Biographical information for Frank Brigham, "Frank Brigham and Basin in 1898", Basin Republican Rustler, Jan. 28, 1937; "Basin's Pioneer Undertaker", no published source
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 95
Item Description
Bright, Moses Lamont - Biographical information for Moses Lamont Bright, "Moses Lamont Bright - Pioneer Prospector", no published source
Location
Pinedale, Wyo.
Date
1938 December 2
Collection Number
WPA Bio 96
Item Description
Broadhurst, William - Biographical information for William J. Broadhurst, "Reminiscences of William Broadhurst, Pioneer", no published source
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 97
Item Description
Brock, A.L. - Biographical information for Albert L. Brock; Mrs. Julie Brown Brock, "Pioneer Experiences in Wyoming", no published source; "Supplement", no published source
Date
Undated
Collection Number
WPA Bio 98
Item Description
Brooks, Joseph - Biographical information for Joseph Henry Brooks; "Mrs. Joseph Henry Brooks [aka Mrs. Jennie Jamison Coooper Brooks]
Date
Undated
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