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GREAT WESTERN INDIAN FIGHTS
BY
MEMBERS OF THE POTOMAC CORRAL OF THE WESTERNERS
WASHINGTON, D. C.
EDITED BY
THE PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE
B. W. ALLRED
J. C. DYKES, CHAIRMAN
FRANK GOODWYN
D. HARPER SIMMS
THE WRITERS
B. W. (BILL) ALLRED, resident member, is a native of Utah. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees from Utah Agricultural College and took additional graduate work at the University of Nebraska. He was a cowboy in Utah, a sheepherder in Wyoming, and a county agent in Colorado before joining the Soil Conservation Service in 1935. He is now the Ranch Planning Specialist in the Washington office of the Soil Conservation Service. He collects Western Americana, specializing in books on range life. He is the author of Range Conservation Practices for the Great Plains (Washington, D.C., 1940); Practical Grassland Management (San Angelo, Texas, 1950); (with J. C. Dykes) Flat Top Ranch (Norman, Oklahoma, 1957); and over four hundred articles and book reviews.
CLINTON P. ANDERSON, resident member, United States Senator from New Mexico, has lived in the West since 1917 and is known as an authority on Western history. He is one of the best-known collectors of Western Americana in the country. He first entered public life in 1933 when he was appointed state treasurer of New Mexico. He served three terms in the House of Representatives beginning in 1940, and was Secretary of Agriculture, 1945-1948. He has served in the Senate since 1948, and is currently chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. He is a member of the Senate Committees on Finance, Interior and Insular Affairs, Aeronautical and Space Sciences, and of the Select Committee on Water Resources. He is also a member of the Joint Committee on Navajo-Hopi Administration, the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission, and the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
ROY E. APPLEMAN, resident member and sheriff (president) in 1959, is a professional historian. He has degrees from the University of Ohio and Columbia University and has done additional graduate work at Yale. He was District Historian of the National Park Service in New York in 1935-36; Regional National Park Service Historian at Richmond, Virginia, in 1936-42; and since 1946 has been Staff Historian at the Washington, D.C., office. He has been responsible for the research, administration, and travel connected with many of the National Park Service historical projects. He served with distinction in the Pacific during the war, rising from private to Major. He was Combat Historian for the Philippines, Okinawa, and Japan. He was called back for the Korean conflict and graduated to the rank of colonel. He is a close student of the Indian Wars.
LAWRENCE V. COMPTON, resident member, is a graduate of the University of Kansas and has a masters degree from the University of California. He spent many years in the South-west as a wildlife conservationist. For the past nine years he has been the Principal Biologist of the Soil Conservation Service with headquarters in Washington, D.C. He is the author of numerous articles and bulletins on wildlife and its conservation.
JOHN B. (JACK) DODD, a resident member until the fall of 1959 and now a corresponding member, was born in Spokane, Washington. His grandparents on both sides homesteaded in the Big Bend country of Washington when it was still a territory. He is a graduate of the University of Idaho and was a forester for the National Park Service for many years. He is now Assistant Superintendent of the Everglades National Park, Homestead, Florida. His hobbies are antique guns, collecting Indian artifacts and handicraft, and Western history, particularly that dealing with Washington Territory. He served in World War II and is now a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.
J. C. (JEFF) DYKES, resident member, is a native of Texas. He is a graduate of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College and a former faculty member of his alma mater. He is now Assistant Administrator of the Soil Conservation Service. He is an ardent collector of Western books and an outstanding authority on Western Americana. He is the author of Billy the Kid : The Bibliography of a Legend (Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1952); the introduction to Pat Garretts The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid (Norman, Oklahoma, 1954); (with B. W. Allred) Flat Top Ranch (Norman, Oklahoma, 1957); and numerous articles and papers on Western books and conservation. Since 1950 he has been an associate editor of The Brand Book , the official monthly publication of the Chicago Corral, The Westerners.
ARTHUR W. EMERSON, corresponding member, is a professional writer. He was born in the sand hills of Nebraska of pioneer stock. His grandfather Emerson operated the first store in Dead-wood, South Dakota. He is a graduate of the South Dakota School of Technology and spent several years in sales and promotion work in Chicago, Cleveland, and Minneapolis. He mined gold in Montana and was a freelance writer on many subjects. For three years he was in charge of educational relations with seventeen Indian reservations on the Northern Great Plains. He is now Information Specialist for the Soil Conservation Service in the West, with headquarters at Berkeley, California.
JOHN C. (JACK) EWERS, resident member and sheriff in 1958, is a native of Ohio. He has A. B. and M.A. degrees from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. He was the first curator of the Museum of the Plains Indians on the Blackfoot Reservation in Montana and won the confidence of the elders of that tribe. He is the author of numerous publications on the Blackfeet and other Indians including The Horse in Blackfoot Culture (Washington, D.C., 1955) and The Blackfeet (Norman, Oklahoma, 1958). He is one of the top Indian historians in the country and a member of the Smithsonian staff. His present job is that of Assistant Director, Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
O. CLARK FISHER, resident member, is the Congressman for the Twenty-first Texas District. He was born on a ranch in Kimble County, Texas. His father was a trail driver and the first cousin of King Fisher, the highly publicized Texas gunman and Deputy Sheriff. Clark attended Baylor University and the University of Texas and holds the LL.B. degree. He was County Attorney, District Attorney, and State Representative prior to being elected to the Seventy-eighth Congress. He is now serving his eighteenth year in Congress and, like his father, is a Kimble County rancher. He has been interested in pioneer and frontier history since his youth. He is the author of It Occurred in Kimble (Houston, Texas, 1937), one of the best Texas county histories.
