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Wyoming Wilderness Association records, 1930-2020

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Wyoming Wilderness Association
Title
Wyoming Wilderness Association records
Dates
1930-2020 (inclusive)
Quantity
6.10 cubic ft. (9 boxes) + 1.94 GB
Collection Number
11425
Summary
The Wyoming Wilderness Association was a statewide environmental educational organization dedicated to protecting public wild lands for people and wildlife. Collection contains interviews and photographs for the Wyoming Wilderness History Project and correspondence, publications, photographs, video, reports, newspaper clippings, and legislation files regarding the work and operations of the Wyoming Wilderness Association.
Repository
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

The Wyoming Wilderness Association was a statewide environmental educational organization dedicated to protecting public wild lands for people and wildlife. Leila Bruno and Broughton Coburn were the principal people on the association's history project committee to write the book, "Ahead of Their Time". The book was to be the story of the Wyoming people who were responsible for the Wyoming Wilderness Acts of 1964 and 1984.

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Content Description

Collection contains interviews for the Wyoming Wilderness History Project with Wyoming people such as outfitters, ranchers, teachers, and Native Americans (2004). The interviewers were people the association enlisted to interview environmentalists who lived near them. There are audio cassettes of radio interviews of Leila Bruno and Anna Kock, and interviews of the environmentalists. There is material about the outcome of the interviews, photographs, and digital copies on CDs of all historical photographs (2004). There are also files regarding a tour of Laramie Peak for a wilderness proposal (1970), files on the U.S. Forest Service, the Wilderness Society, and the Wyoming Outdoor Council (2004), files regarding congressional hearings about land use from the 1930s, a book "Ahead of Their Time" edited by Leila Bruno and Broughton Coburn (2004), correspondence, publications, photographs, video, reports, newspaper clippings, and legislation files regarding the work and operations of the Wyoming Wilderness Association.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

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Restrictions on Use

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Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

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Administrative Information

Preservation Note

System Requirements

Interviews with Wyoming environmentalists -- Audio cassettes.

Historical photographs of Wyoming -- Compact disks.

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by the Wyoming Wilderness Association at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

This material was received from the Wyoming Wilderness Association from 2004-2021

Processing Note

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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Subject Terms

  • Conservation projects (Natural resources) -- Wyoming -- 20th century.
  • Environmentalism -- Wyoming -- 20th Century.
  • Environmentalists -- Wyoming.
  • Wilderness areas -- Wyoming.
  • Wildlife protection -- Wyoming -- 20th century.

Corporate Names

  • Wyoming Outdoor Council.
  • Wyoming Wilderness Association.

Geographical Names

  • Wyoming -- History -- 1919-1945.
  • Wyoming -- History -- 1946-1999.

Form or Genre Terms

  • Audiocassettes.
  • Compact disks.

Other Creators

  • Personal Names

    • Bruno, Leila.
    • Coburn, Broughton.


2013

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