Watson Parker
Watson Parker by residence and research is a recognized authority on the Black Hills. Author of Gold in the Black Hills, Deadwood and numerous articles and papers on the subject, he is now retired from the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh where he served as Professor of American Western and Military History. Returning to live in the hills, he continues to research the historic area.
Author of…
Black Hills Ghost Towns
The Black Hills have been famous ever since the gold rush days of the 1870s when General George A. Custer’s expedition in the summer of 1874 found and advertised placer gold in the Black Hills valleys and a rush to the Hills began.…
- Sue Ann Painter
Director of the Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati… - Sylvia A. Pamboukian
Associate professor in the department of English at Robert Morris University… - Helen Papanikolas
Author of several books of fiction and non-fiction, most recently the novel The Time of the Little Black Bird, winner of the Utah Book Award for Fiction… - Ron Parker
Academic geologist who turned to sheep raising in 1976… - Watson Parker
Recognized authority on the Black Hills… - Suzi Parron
Quilter, backwoods traveler, an avid kayaker and a folk art collector… - Jack Parson
Associate Professor of Political Science at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, 29424… - Timothy H. Parsons
- Stephen H. Paschen
University archivist as well as assistant professor in libraries and media services at Kent State University… - Rita Patteson
Curator of Manuscripts at the Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University… - Kirstin Pauka
Scholar, performer, percussionist, and martial artist… - Phillip G. Payne
Associate professor of history at St. Bonaventure University in western New York, where he teaches courses in United States and public history… - Richard M. Pearl
Author of thirty books on gems, minerals, and geology, including Popular Gemology, How to Know the Minerals and Rocks, and Successful Mineral Collecting and Prospecting… - Stuart Pearson
Son-in-law of An Sudibjo, the subject of BitterSweet… - Neal Pease
Associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee… - Morse Peckham
- William D. Pederson
Professor of political science at Louisiana State University in Shreveport… - Stephen Peet
- Olga Anastasia Pelensky
- V. Penelope Pelizzon
- Wade C. Pendleton
- Nigel Penn
Senior lecturer in the history department at the University of Cape Town… - Derek R. Peterson
Senior lecturer in African history and director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Michigan… - Natalie L. M. Petesch
- Richard Pevear
- Howard Phillips
Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town, where he pioneered research in and the teaching of the social history of medicine and disease… - Sam Pickering
Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and the author of numerous books of scholarship and creative nonfiction… - Charles J. Ping
- Helen Pinkerton
Poet, essayist, and scholar of American and English literature… - Gordon Pitts
- Sol T. Plaatje
- Eva Plach
Assistant professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada… - Sandy Plunkett
- Gloria Poedjosoedarmo
- Simon Pokagan
- Pearl T. Ponce
Assistant professor of history at Ithaca College. … - Robert J. Pond
Native of Hillsboro, Ohio, and a graduate of Ohio State University… - David Pool
Valuable addition to our understanding of the complex political forces at work in the struggle for independence… - Susan Porterfield
- Deborah Posel
Senior lecturer in sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand… - David Potash
- Randall Pouwels
Professor of African history at the University of Central Arkansas… - Jane Poyner
Lecturer in English, specializing in postcolonial literature, in the school of English at the University of Exeter… - Jay Prefontaine
- Ronald Primeau
Professor of English at Central Michigan University… - Dawn Prince-Hughes
- Gayle A. Pritchard
Fiber artist, curator, lecturer, and teacher… - William H. Pritchard
Professor of English at Amherst College… - James S. Pula
Professor of history at Purdue University North Central…

