Doris Ostrander Dawdy papers, 1970-1999 [manuscript].

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Doris Ostrander Dawdy papers, 1970-1999 [manuscript].

Includes research files used to create her book, George Montague Wheeler, The Man and the Myth; includes copies of documents, reference books, notes taken in shorthand and note cards; correspondence (1990-1992) about the publication of the Wheeler book ; Wheeler research primary references (duplicates); The Colorado Years (Sept.1969-Sept. 1972) and includes Wagon Wheel Gas Stimulation Project and on Proposed Prototype Oil Shale Project to December 1973.

1 linear ft. (1 box)

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Dawdy, Doris Ostrander

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Author. Researcher of water rights and other historical issues in the American West. Most notable works include Annotated Bibliograpy of American Indian Painting and Artists of the American West. From the description of Doris Ostrander Dawdy papers, 1970-1999 [manuscript]. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 67718737 ...

Wheeler, George Montague, 1842-1905

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Wheeler was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, the son of John Wheeler and Miriam P. Daniels. He graduated from West Point in 1866, ranked sixth in his class, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the US Army Corps of Engineers. He first served in California from 1866 to 1871. In 1869 General Edward O. C. Ord sent him on a reconnaissance through the eastern Nevada. In 1872, the US Congress authorized an ambitious plan to map the portion of the United States west of the 100th meridian at a sc...