Terry A. Del Bene
Terry A. Del Bene is a retired anthropologist who worked with several federal agencies during his long career, including many years of service in Wyoming. He co-edited Settlement of the West. He is the author of A Phone Where the Buffalo Roamed: Connecting Neighbors in America's Outback (a history of Wyoming’s Union Telephone Company) and The Donner Party Cookbook: A Guide to Survival on the Hastings Cutoff. He also co-wrote Images of America: Grand Encampment with Candy Moulton and Images of America: Green River with Ruth Lauritzen and other authors. He now makes his home in Florida and the Virgin Islands.
Latest from Terry A. Del Bene
The American West: Fort Laramie Attacked
Though one of the most important military forts in the West, Fort Laramie lacked fortifications. It was an open assemblage of buildings that one might usually expect to find within protective walls of any U.S. Army fort in the Nineteenth Century.
Terry A. Del BeneJuly 14, 2024
The American West: The 1864 Attack On The Kelly-Larimer Wagon Train
All that’s left today of the July 12, 1864, attack on the Kelly-Larimer Wagon Train in what would later become Wyoming Territory are the harrowing accounts of women taken captive and a small graveyard.
Terry A. Del BeneJune 29, 2024
The American West: That Time Rudyard Kipling Came To Yellowstone And Wasn’t Impressed
Rudyard Kipling was in a foul and despicable mood when his editor sent him to visit America. He was not impressed with the American West. "Today I am in the Yellowstone Park, and I wish I were dead," he wrote.
Terry A. Del BeneJune 22, 2024