Here's another installment of a series of profiles of authors participating in the Equality State Book Festival in Casper Sept. 18-20: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 a panel on Wyoming History at 2:45 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Fort Caspar Museum. He will be available to sign books after the panel.
For more info on Lawrence Woods, go to http://wyomingauthors.pbwiki.com/Lawrence-M-Woods.
