Richard H. Mahard papers, 1937-1980.

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Richard H. Mahard papers, 1937-1980.

This collection consists of a field notebook created by Richard H. Mahard in 1937 at the University of Wyoming's Summer Science Camp held by Professor Knight of the Department of Geology. Locations noted in the field book are all Wyoming sites. There is also correspondence from 1963 regarding a reunion of all former science camp students at the occasion of Dr. Knight's retirement and correspondence from 1979-1980 regarding the deposit of the field book at the American Heritage Center.

0.10 cubic ft. (1 envelope)

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University of Wyoming. Science Camp.

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Mahard, Richard H.

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Knight, Samuel H. (Samuel Howell), 1892-1975

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Samuel Howell Knight was born in 1892, and soon came to Laramie with his family in 1893. S.H. Knight's father, Wilbur C. Knight, had accepted a position as the University of Wyoming's first geology professor. S.H. Knight attended the University of Wyoming as a prep student and an undergraduate from 1907 to 1913. He attended Columbia University in New York from 1914 to 1916 for his graduate studies. He then joined the University of Wyoming faculty in 1916 as assistant professor of geology and cur...