Oscar O. Winther

(1903-1970) born near Weeping Water, Cass County. Educator, administrator, researcher, author, devoted three decades of historical research to the field of 19th century Western transportation and the history of the Pacific Northwest; was author/editor, sometimes with others, of 12 books, and published more than 30 scholarly articles and book reviews, served as managing editor of two history journals. Consult New York Times obituary, May 24, 1970, p. 80 and Contemporary Authors-New Revision Series, Vol 2 (Gale, 1981) 678 and Historians of the American Frontier (Greenwood press, 1988) 736-744 and New Encyclopedia of the American West (Yale University Press, 1998) 1222.

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