| Birth: | Aug. 15, 1887
Kansas, USA | | Death: | Dec. 25, 1957, USA | 
Historian, Author. Born as Stanley Vestal in Kansas, he took the surname of his stepfather, Campbell. At age twelve his family removed to Oklahoma. He became a graduate of what is now Southwestern Oklahoma State University and was a Rhodes Scholar from Oklahoma earning a B.A. and M.A. in English literature at Oxford. Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Using his pen name Stanley Vestal, he was the author of twenty-four books, numerous articles and was a noted authority on the 19th century west. Some of his better known works include, "Dodge City, Queen of the Cowtowns", and "The Old Sante Fe Trail". During World War I he commanded a battery of artillery with the rank of captain. He died of a heart attack on Christmas Day, 1957. (bio by: Steve Dunn)
Search Amazon for Walter Campbell | | | Burial:
Custer National Cemetery
Crow Agency
Big Horn County
Montana, USA |
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Originally Created by: Steve Dunn
Record added: May 20, 2003
Find A Grave Memorial# 7471749 |
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