William Harlow Reed Papers, 1897-1961

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William Harlow Reed Papers, 1897-1961

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Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and printed material created by and concerning William Harlow Reed, a discoverer of dinosaur fossils in Wyoming, who had a prominent career in paleontology at the University of Wyoming and elsewhere..

cubicft. (1 small collection envelope)

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Patterson, George W.

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Reed, William Harlow

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William Harlow Reed (1848-1915) headed the Department of Paleontology at the University of Wyoming in the early 1900s. He also curated the paleontological museum (1899-1915). Reed arrived in Wyoming as an employee of the Union Pacific Railroad. While acting as section foreman and station agent near Como Bluff, Wyoming, in 1877, he discovered fossilized dinosaur bones in the rocks, which he brought to the attention of famed dinosaur collector O.C. Marsh. Although Reed was a self-taug...

University of Wyoming. Geological Museum

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Patterson, Dorothy Reed

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