Colonel William C. Rogers was born in October 1906. He attended the Virginia Military Academy graduating as a mechanical engineer in 1927. He worked for the Newport News Shipbuilding Company until he joined the American Locomotive Company in 1930. He joined the Army Transportation Corps in 1942; and he served in Iran as part of the effort to keep a railroad supply line open to Russia. Later, he served in Europe. Then, he was stationed twice in Korea. After he retired from the Army in 1962, he did railroad research at the National Academy of Sciences for two years. Then he joined ALCO Corporation and developed high speed turbine engines and experimented with them on the Union Pacific Railroad until his retirement in 1969.
He had a wide range of intellectual and practical interests including book collecting, Calamity Jane, windmills, and developing his 80 acre ranch property. He attended the Ivan Illich Language Institute (CIDOC), circa 1972. He produced a Jim Bridger reprint in 1972 for $1.50. He lived on the Triple R Ranch on the Fletcher Park Route near Wheatland during the Summer and he lived in Nebraska and Mexico during the rest of the year. He published a reprint of a pamphlet by Calamity Jane. He reprinted two small Union Pacific books. One was related to fossils and the other was related to Union Pacific history.
From the guide to the William C. Rogers papers, 1926-1993, (University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.)
