In Memoriam
| Edwin
D. Karn, Associate Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin—Sheboygan,
died on July 16, 2001, at Plymouth, Wisconsin. He received his BA, MA,
and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin—Madison, where he began
his lifelong love of western and frontier history. Before joining the University
of Wisconsin’s Center System in 1965, where he taught American and western
history for 31 years, Karn served in Korea from 1952 to 1953, where he
was awarded the Purple Heart, and was the civilian historian at the USAF
base at Truax Field in Madison from 1963 to 1965. Karn was a member of
numerous professional associations, but was also active in several local
organizations, especially programs for children. Among his publications
is American Expansion: A Book of Maps, which he co-authored with
Randall Sale. He was inducted in Wisconsin’s Writer’s Hall of Fame in 2001.
Glenn D. Shirley, 85, died February 27, 2002 in Tulsa. Born December 9, 1916 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Shirley worked in law enforcement for twenty years before retiring to write full time. Among his innumerable books were biographies of Pawnee Bill, Belle Starr, Bill Tilghman, and Temple Houston. He is survived by his wife, Carrie, and two children. Benjamin Capps, novelist and popular historian, died December 23, 2001. He was a four-time Spur Award winner from the Western Writers of America. He served in the Army Air Corps in World War II flying as navigator on forty B-24 Liberator missions in the Pacific. Among his novels were The Trail to Ogallala (1964) and Sam Chance (1965). |
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