William Deverell is opening the door to new information about the West. LFP photo
“There’s no question about it,” Dr. William Deverell says, “there remains a very strong interest in the West. I’d say a majority of scholars come to the Huntington Library to study the West, and it’s growing. We haven’t even scratched the surface of what happened.” Deverell is director for the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, or ICW for short, and he’s leading efforts to explore and utilize the vast resources of American West material at the Huntington Library as part of a collaboration started in 2004 between the University of Southern California and the Huntington.
He's fighting To Save Civil War Battlefields in the West
James Lighthizer, president of the Civil War Preservation Trust. CWPT photo
James Lighthizer, president of the Civil War Preservation Trust, is keenly aware that the American Civil War battlefields in the West are in danger from development or deterioration, and that time is running out on the ability to fully preserve them.Specifically he’s talking about the Battle of Palmito Ranch in Texas, Picacho Pass in Arizona, two Confederate forts below New Orleans, the Glorieta Battlefield in New Mexico and the Battle of Westport in Missouri, to name a few.
National Park Service's New Chief Historian is a Man of the West
Robert Sutton wearing his WSU Cougars cap. Patricia Jones, NPS photo
The new chief historian for the National Park Service, is Dr. Robert Sutton and his Western roots go pretty deep. “Both of my great-grandparents were on the Oregon Trail. My grandfather had a wheat farm in Oregon that was almost feet from the Oregon Trail. History has always had a great fascination for me, ever since my childhood.” Sutton becomes only the ninth chief historian for the NPS and he has a big job to do.
One Author's Battle To Preserve A Part Of Grand Teton History
Candy Moulton
Some call it America’s Barn, others call it a Wyoming treasure, but no matter what you call it, the historic Moulton Barn in Grand Teton National Park would have disappeared by now without the efforts of one Western author, Candy Vyvey Moulton.
Accuracy Is No Accident When This Old West Painter Paints
Larry Edgar, painter of the West. Jan Edgar photo
Wyoming’s Larry Edgar, is meticulous about representing the Old West as accurately as possible, right down to clothing, tack, firearms and historic settings. Born, raised and still living in northwest Wyoming, Edgar is carrying on the traditions of such notable Western artists as Frederic Remington, William Henry Jackson and Charles Russell.
