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R.E. Mather
R.E. Mather is a retired university professor. She taught English at Boise State University, College of the Redwoods, Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea (the University of Maryland's Far East Division), and at Rama Roma de Iglesia de Jesucristo in Mexico City.Her family tree includes such luminaries as Daniel Boone, Abraham Lincoln, William Clark and colonial preacher Cotton Mather. She has written numerous articles about gold rush fever in the west.
R.E. Mather is the co-author, with F.E. Boswell, of Hanging the Sheriff: A Biography of Henry Plummer (Univ. of Utah Press, 1987) and John David Borthwick: Artist of the Gold Rush (University of Uta Press, 1988), and Gold Camp Desperados (1990, History West Publishing co.; 1993, University of Oklahoma Press), and Vigilante Victims: Montana's 1864 Hanging Spree (History West Publishing Co., 1993).
R.E. Mather's first novel was , The Cottonwood Murders Unsolved (1998). She has contributed short stories to South Dakota Review and articles on Western history to Idaho Yesterdays, Montana Journalism Review, American National Biography of Oxford University Press, Horizons West, The Californians, Wild West, True West, NOLA Quarterly, and the WOLA Journal.
R.E. Mather is currently listed in Who's Who in the South and Southwest and in Who's Who in America. She has been selected to appear in the 1998 issue of Who's Who in the World and in the 1998 Dictionary of International Biography of Cambridge, England.
Valerie L. Mathes
Valerie L. Mathes was born on July 1, 1941 in Toledo, Ohio. She graduated from high school in Park Ridge, Illinois in 1959 and received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of New Mexico.
In 1966 she began teach history at the University of San Francisco. She has published articles in many popular and scholarly magazines. She is the author of Dr. Susan Laflesche Picotte: The Reformed and the Reformer, a book which won the Tunis Award for Excellence in Women's History from Arizona State University. It was also a finalist for a 1985 Spur Award in the best Western short nonfiction category. She writes under the name of Valerie Sherer Mathes.
Merrill Mattes
(Deceased)
Merrill Mattes was born in 1910 in Congress park, Ill, and grew up in Kansas City, Mo. He received a bachelor's in history from the University of Missouri and a masters degree in English from the University of Kansas. He worked for the National Park Service as a historian from 1935 to 1975 and was the first government historian stationed west of the Mississippi.He wrote The Great Platt River Road; Indians, Infants and Infantry; Fort Laramie park History; Colter's Hell and jackson's Hole; and the work for which he is best know, Platt River Road narratives (Univeristy of Illinois Press, 1988). He co-founded the Oregon-California Trails Association. He was a charter member of botht he Western History Association and the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Merrill J. Mattes Research Library at the national Frontier Trails Center in Independence, Missouri, was created in part to house the research collection which he donated.
Merrill Mattes died of a heart attack near Littleton, Colorado, on May 5, 1996.
Walter Matthau
(Deceased)
Walter Matthau, actor, was born in New York on Oct. 1, 1920 as Walter Matuschanskayasky. His mother and father were Russian immigrants, and his father abandoned the family when Walter was just three years old.
Matthau enlisted in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He became a staff sergeant and earned six battle stars. And when he returned to New York City, he used his GI benefits to study acting at the New School's Dramatic Workshop.
Walter Matthau won a Tony Award in 1962 for his role in the play, "A Shot in the Dark", and in 1965 won another Tony Award for his role in the play, "The Odd Couple". He teamed with actor Jack Lemmon in a number of movies, running their string into their senior years with "Grumpy Old Men" and "Grumpier Old Men".
Matthau's Western roles included such films as "The Kentuckian" (1955), "The Indian Fighter" (1955), "Ride a Crooked Trail" (1958).
Walter Matthau died of a heart attack in Santa Monica, CA., on July 2, 2000, at the age of 79.
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Victor Mature
(Deceased)
Victor Mature was born Victor John Mature on January 29, 1913 in Louisville, KY. He played Doc Holiday in cahoots with Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp in "My Darling Clementine".
Victor Mature used his broad shoulders and narrow waistline to win a number of roles during the 1940s and '50s that saw him clad in loincloths and togas. And it made him a star. Among the movies in which Mature revealed most of himself were The Robe, Demetrius and the Gladiators, One Million B.C., and Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah.
Victor Mature died of lukemia at Rancho Santa Fe, CA. on August 4, 1999. He buried in Louisville, KY.
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Harry Maule
(Deceased)
Harry Maule was born in Fairmont, Nebraska. He spent most of his early years in the Denver, Colorado area. He started writing for the Denver Times while still in high school, and he joined the staff fulltime upon his graduation. Other newspaper stints followed with the New York Press, the Monterrey (Mexico) News and the Mexico City Daily Record. Then he worked in the New York and Boston bureaus of United Press International.It was in 1912 that Harry Maule left the newspaper field for a job in the publicity department at Doubleday in New York. He soon became editor of Short Stories magazine, then of West and Frontier. After 20 years with Doubleday, he moved to Random House in 1939 and served there at least 16 years. (See his photo and bio in the Aug., 1955 issue of The Roundup.)
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