| Byron
Price resigned as the executive director of the Buffalo Bill
Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, this past August. Price, who was the
BBHC’s director for five years, has accepted the directorship of the Charles
M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West at the University
of Oklahoma, Norman.
David Weber
of Southern Methodist University will spend the next academic year at Harvard
University.
Peter Blodgett
has been named the H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western Historical
Manuscripts at the Huntington Library. William H. Goetzmann of the University
of Texas at Austin received a Bookend Award for lifetime achievement at
the sixth annual Texas Book Festival.
Paul A. Hutton
begins his two-year term as President of Western Writers of America at
the WWA annual conference in Wichita in June.
WHA Honorary President
Michael Harrison turned 104 last December. Anyone wishing to
send greetings to Mike can write him at: 7440 Alexander Court, Fair Oaks,
CA 95628-6802.
W.T. Jackson prize winner Susan
L. Johnson has accepted a position in the History department
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
John Wunder
spent the spring semester at the University of New Mexico. |