Lawrence Bacon Lee Correspondence, 1962-1996

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Lawrence Bacon Lee Correspondence, 1962-1996

Lawrence Bacon Lee (1917-2003) served as Professor of History at San Jose State University from 1957-1983. The collection contains his correspondence primarily with fellow historians Paul W. Gates and Donald J. Pisani. Topics discussed include their research and writings on the history of the American West including environmental and water history and public land policy.

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Hundley, Norris,

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Norris Hundley, Jr. received his A.B. from Whittier College in 1958, and his Ph. D. from the UCLA in 1963. His long and distinguished teaching career began as a professor of American History at the University of Houston (1963-1964), and then continued at UCLA (1964-1994), where he became Professor Emeritus of American History in 1994. As a scholar, he authored over a hundred books and essays, including several ground-breaking works on the history of water usage in California and the West. Hundle...

Gates, Paul W. (Paul Wallace), 1901-1999

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Historian, professor of history at Cornell University. From the description of Paul Wallace Gates interviews, 1979-1980. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074384 Professor of History, Cornell University. Paul W. Gates was born in Nashua, New Hampshire on December 4, 1901. He taught at Harvard and Bucknell from 1929-1936 and worked for the Federal Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1934-1935. He joined the history faculty at Cor...

Pisani, Donald J.

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Lee, Lawrence Bacon, 1917-

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Lawrence Bacon Lee (1917-2003) received his B.A. from the Lewis Institute and his M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Chicago. He served as Professor of History at San Jose State University from 1957-1983 and specialized in environmental and water history of the Western United States. He was the author of Reclaiming the American West: an Historiography and Guide and Kansas and the Homestead Act, 1862-1905. From the description of Lawrence Bacon Lee correspondence, 1962-1996. (Univer...