Papers, 1933-1976.

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Papers, 1933-1976.

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The collection contains correspondence (1962-1974) between Dott and Joseph Lintz Jr., Edgar W. Owen, A.A. Meyerhoff, Merrill Haas and others concerning the semi-centennial celebration of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in 1963-1964 and the writings of Dott and Owen. There are also research files for "Sourcebook" and photographs of the International Geological Congress, Washington D.C. (1933).

2.25 cubic ft. (5 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Southwestern Association of Petroleum Geologists

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Dott, Robert H. (Robert Henry), 1896-

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Robert H. Dott (1896-1988) was appointed executive director of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in 1952. Prior to that he was associated with various petroleum companies as a geologist and was director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey from 1935 until 1952. Dott was the author, with Merrill J. Reynolds, of "Sourcebook for Petroleum Geology" (1969), and he assisted Edgar W. Owen in writing "Trek of the Oilfinders" (1975). From the description of Papers, 1933-1976. (Uni...

Meyerhoff, A. A. (Anthony Augustus), 1928-

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Haas, Merrill.

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Owen, Edgar Wesley

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Edgar Wesley Owen (1896-1981), a petroleum geologist, was in charge of oil prospecting for John C. Keys Oil Company of Lawton, Oklahoma, from 1919-1927. From 1927-1956 he was a geologist with L.H. Wentz (subsequently the L.H. Wentz Estate) in San Antonio, Texas, and after 1956 a geological advisor to Southern Minerals Corporation. Owen was active in the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and served as president from 1941-1942. Owen also wrote the book "Trek of the Oil Finders: A...

International Geological Congress (1933 : Washington, D.C.)

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Sawyer, J. Herbert.

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J. Herbert Sawyer (d. 1985), a petroleum geologist, spent most of his career with foreign affiliates of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) now Exxon. He wrote a chapter on the history of Latin American oil exploration for the 1975 American Association of Petroleum Geologists memoir "Trek of the Oil Finders : a History of Exploration for Petroleum," by Edgar Wesley Owen. From the description of Papers, 1909-1984 (bulk 1922-1975). (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). World...

Lintz, Joseph, 1921-

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Galey, John Taylor.

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Pratt, Wallace Everette, 1885-1981

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Wallace E. Pratt was born March 15, 1885, in Phillipsburg, Kansas. Pratt received four degrees from the University of Kansas (1908 [2], 1909, 1914) and was names a distinguished Service Citee in 1945. The Erasmus Haworth Distinguished Alumni Award was given to him in 1950. Pratt, the first geologist ever employed by Humble Oil, was considered by many to be one of world's foremost exploration geologists. Pratt acquired considerable land in far west Texas which he later gave to the National Park S...