Peopling the High Plains: Wyoming's European Heritage

The first scholarly study of ethnicity in Wyoming appeared in 1977 under the title of Peopling the High Plains: Wyoming's European Heritage. The book represents a major development in Wyoming historiography and gave Wyoming a place in immigration history. Its essays vary in style, methodology, and perspective, but the book provided a starting point for further work. More important the settlement of Wyoming is now viewed as part of the continuum of ethnicity on the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain West. The monographs include: Country Squires and Laborers, British Immigrants in Wyoming by John C. Paige; Dream and Fulfillment, Germans in Wyoming by Donald Hodgson and Vivien Hills. The Italian Experience in Wyoming by David Kathka; The Basques in Wyoming by David A. Cookson; Mines and Miners, The Eastern Europeans in Wyoming by Earl Stinneford; Faith, Hard Work, and Family, The Story of the Wyoming Hellenes by Dean P. Talagan; Immigration and Assimilation in Wyoming by Gordon Olaf Hendrickson. Author bios. Researchers. Advisory Council. Index. Research Teams: Riverton (Donna Bouletter, Vanessa Dickinson, Ron Diehl, Adele Hessling, Rosemary Williamson); Rock Springs (Ann Burns, Nancy Louise Cranford, Wallace R. Lee, Terry Lee Pawleska, Dennis Dee Roe, Charles H. Tate); Sheridan (Rick Badgett, Randy Fall, Joan Helmerick, Fay Macalister, Charlotte Myers, Jeni Nowak, Elmer Reisch Jr, Carol Ann Stinneford). Torrington (Dorothy Brown, Janice Hodgson, Melodie Houk, Donald Houush, Marcella Newman, Margarie Reid, Geraldine Wood); Cheyenne (Carmen Blackman, Valle Montgomery, Linda Muggenburg, Juanita Paige, Betty Jo Parris, Shirley Sancher, Sally Speight, Linn Stubbs, Kathleen Sullivan, Susan M. Tanner, Peggy Tempte, Martha Thompson, Shirley Wallace, Pamm Wetherbee, William H. Barton, Monty Beach, William J. Collins, Clem Eacker, Lou Gonzales, Scott Haynes, Joe Hubka, John R. Johns, Rich McVeigh, Charles R. Paige, Bud Sills.