Fugate, Francis L., 1915-1992

Author, editor, and UTEP English professor.

Born July 15, 1915, in Ottumawa, Iowa, he was the son of James LeRoy and Carrie Leona (Bowie) Fugate. He received his BA and BJ from the University of Missouri in 1939. He attended graduate school at the University of Chicago from 1943-1944 and the University of Oklahoma from 1947-1949. He worked as an advertising manager in Florida and Oklahoma before coming to El Paso to teach English at Texas Western College (now the University of Texas El Paso). He was the technical editor and contracts administrator for Schellenger Research Laboratories in El Paso from 1958-1964 and the Assistant Director of Advanced Projects Division of Global Universal Sciences, Inc. in El Paso from 1965-1969. He wrote or edited more than half a dozen books, including annotating Tom Lea's The King Ranch, and numerous magazine articles. The areas that he wrote about include: travel, history, education, and science. He served as the President and the Secretary Treasurer of Western Writers of America. He was married in 1939 to Roberta Bauslin Fugate who became his long-time collaborator. He died on New Year's Eve 1992 shortly after completing the manuscript for his final book Arbuckles the coffee that won the West.

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