CONTRIBUTORS

Albert Woldert, "The Expedition of Luís de Moscoso in Texas
in 1542," pp. 158-166, is a native Texan, born in Tyler and a
graduate of The University of Pennsylvania Medical College,
having received his M.D. in the class of 1893. Dr. Woldert was
one of the original research students showing the instrumental-
ity of the mosquito in conveying malarial fever (see Transactions
of the Texas State Medical Association, 1904.) Dr. Woldert is
an authority on the Cherokee Indians of Texas and has written
on that subject in The Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume I. He
is also a former contributor to The Quarterly in regard to the
location of the Spanish missions of East Texas. Dr. Woldert
recently received first prize for his History of Tyler and Smith
County, which was submitted in a contest sponsored by the
Tyler Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
He is a frequent contributor to various medical publications, but
states that he finds himself "more and more interested in his-
tory than in playing golf, hunting, or fishing."

Rex W. Strickland, "Moscoso's Journey Through Texas," pp.
109-137, is a native son of Grayson County, Texas. On all sides
his family goes back to early colonial times, having marched
steadily westward. His grandmother was his first history teach-
er--"a grand old pioneer woman unlearned in books but rich in
the lore of the frontier." Strickland's doctoral dissertation,
"Anglo-American Occupation of Northeastern Texas, 1803-1845,"
was accepted by The University of Texas in 1937. His "History
of Fannin County, 1836-1843" was published in The Quarterly
in 1930. He has also published in The Chronicles of Oklahoma.
Since 1936 Strickland has been a member of the History De-
partment of the Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy. As
a personal characterization, he writes: "Dr. Eugene C. Barker
is my academic hero; Archer Hulbert's Soil my favorite hand-
book; Evetts Haley and Frank Dobie are tied in my estimation
as raconteurs; and I think Texian preferable to Texan."

J. W. Williams, "Moscoso's Trail in Texas," pp. 138-157, is such
an outstanding amateur historian that perhaps he ought to be
classified as at least semi-professional. Williams is a teacher
in Wichita Falls High School "inhaling chalk dust and exhaling
mathematics." He writes:

By way of diversion, I spent the days of the Burk-
burnett boom as an oil scout, watching plump-muscled
drillers discover a new world seventeen hundred feet
under the ground. It was a half dozen years later be-
fore my partner and I discovered a small fraction of
that sub-surface world for ourselves.

More recently the hobby of hunting old trails over
widely scattered areas of Texas has claimed the part
of my time that can be spared from blackboard and
chalk. The cash dividends are not equal to some that
came from oil, but the thrills and adventures are equal
to the top days of the Burkburnett boom.

Williams believes in intensive field work and nothing pleases
him more than to locate exact camp sites. His "Van Dorn Trails"
appeared in The Quarterly of January, 1941. He is a frequent
contributor to The West Texas Historical Year Book.

How to cite:
"Contributors", Volume 46, Number 2, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v046/n2/contrib_DIVL2721.html
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