Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1993
Abstract
Wyoming Biographies is a biographical dictionary (with a chatty introduction chronicling the settlement of Wyoming) that compiles in alphabetical order life sketches of approximately 265 pioneer citizens. Lawrence M. Woods has collated information from a variety of sources, drawing on contemporary subscription biographies, on more recently written histories, on biographies and memoirs of individuals, on reference works, and on miscellaneous materials (personal conversations and letters, materials in the Wyoming Historical Society collection, etc.). The content of entries varies, but most list the subject's date and place of birth, date of migration to Wyoming, occupation, and government offices.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 13:3 (Summer 1993). Copyright © 1993 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.