On this day in 1911, 11-year-old ranch girl Mary Olga Moore's chapbook on the history of Lake DeSmet appeared in the Sheridan Post. We have copies of her original chapbooks, pictured below, as well as her two novels...
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A University of Wyoming graduate, Moore wrote for the Sheridan Post-Enterprise, the Laramie Daily Boomerang, and The Denver Post. In 1937, she published a novel about Wyoming, Wind-Swept, and in 1949, an autobiographical novel about her colorful experiences in Washington D.C., I'll Meet You in the Lobby. The Sheridan County Library also houses some of her fiction.
Moore worked in Washington D.C., New York, and London for the Office of War Information and was later a public relations specialist in D.C. She eventually returned to her beloved home state where she passed away in 1981. Click on the image of Moore's chapbooks below to enlarge (the book at center, red cover, is her history of Lake DeSmet).
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