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University of Wyoming Textbook Controversy Essay 10/12/2011
Sailors, Kenny Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Knight, Samuel H. Encyclopedia 12/20/2011
Knight, Emma Howell Encyclopedia 3/14/2012
Downey, Stephen Wheeler Encyclopedia 4/16/2012

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Encyclopedia | Stephen Downey
Stephen Wheeler Downey was a prominent Laramie lawyer active in public life in Wyoming for more than 30 years beginning in 1869. He served in the territorial and state legislatures where he was an...
Encyclopedia | Emma Howell Knight
Emma Knight, the University of Wyoming’s first dean of women, bore four children and served seven years as the Albany County, Wyoming superintendent of schools before she finally graduated from the...
Encyclopedia | Samuel H. Knight, “Mr. Geology of Wyoming”
Samuel H. “Doc” Knight taught geology at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyo. from 1916 until his retirement in 1963. For a decade he was the only geology teacher, but as his classes began to...
Encyclopedia | Kenny Sailors, Jump Shot Hero
Three-time All-American Kenny Sailors, of tiny Hillsdale, Wyo. led the University of Wyoming’s 1943 men’s basketball team to an NCAA championship in Madison Square Garden. Sailors was only 5 feet 10...
Essay | The University of Wyoming Textbook Controversy, 1947-48
After World War II, the University of Wyoming was bursting with returning veterans just as the nation, nervous about Communist expansion worldwide, was sliding into the Cold War. UW trustees called...