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Lawrence Woods

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Lawrence M. Woods, of Worland, Wyoming has written widely on Wyoming's past. His books include Alex Swan and the Swan Companies (Arthur H. Clark, 2006); Edward Shelley's Journal, 1856-61: A Victorian Remittance Man (2005); Asa Shinn Mercer: Western Promoter and Newspaperman, 1839-1917 (Arthur H. Clark, 2003); John Clay Jr: Commission Man, Banker and Rancher (Arthur H. Clark, 2001); Wyoming's Big Horn Basin to 1901: a Late Frontier (Arthur H. Clark, 1997); Wyoming Biographies (High Plains Pub. Co., 1991); British Gentlemen in the Wild West: the Era of the Intensely English Cowboy (Free Press, 1989); Moreton Frewen's Western Adventures, (Roberts Rinehart, 1986); Sometimes the Books Froze: Wyoming's Economy and its Banks (Colorado Associated University Press, 1986); and The Wyoming Country Before Statehood: Four Hundred Years Under Six Flags, (Worland Press, 1971).

Woods was born in Manderson and graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1953, holds a Ph.D. in history from New York University, and is an attorney and CPA. He served in accounting and auditing positions with a national accounting firm, and in the U.S. government. He joined Mobil Oil in 1956 and served in a number of planning positions, retiring from the company in 1985 as executive vice president and member of the board of directors. Woods will speak on the panel, "Plucking Meaning from Wyoming's Past" at 2:45 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18th, at the Fort Caspar Museum. He will be available to sign books after the panel.