Cobb, Harrison S., 1908-2003.

Mine operator and author Harrison S. Cobb was born March 24, 1908. He attended Rollins College in Florida. In the late 1920s, western gold camps drew Cobb to Boulder County, Colorado. In 1948, Cobb, along with Etherton P. Baker, worked to reopen the old Strong Mine in the Horse Creek district of Albany County, Wyoming. E.P. Baker was the original promoter of the Strong Mine. From 1900 to 1907 the Strong Mine was developed for copper by a group of Laramie and Boston men. In 1948, operators uncovered scheelite deposits in the mine and on nearby property.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Cobb began to research the western journey of Francis Parkman, as recorded in the book "The Oregon Trail." Along with his wife Betty, Cobb traversed the hills and plains of southeast Wyoming. He mapped each one of Parkman's campsites, each place the Indians camped, the exact location of a buffalo hunt, where they cut new lodge poles, and how they made their way across the mountans. The result of Cobb's research is presented in his own book "Parkman's Trace." The book traces Parkman's journey from Fort Laramie, Wyoming, to Bent's Fort in Colorado.

Cobb died April 2, 2003.

From the description of Harrison S. Cobb papers, 1868-1981. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 56069247