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William
E. Farr, Ph.D.
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Biography
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graduate of the University of Washington, William E.
Farr came to Missoula in 1967. He is a professor former
chair of the Department of History as well as the associate
director of the O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain
West. Professor Farr teaches both medieval and reformation
history and concentrates as well on regional history
and the role of Native Americans in the Rocky Mountain
West. Professor Farr was selected for the Vivian Paladin
Award for his article "Troubled Bundles, Troubled
Blackfeet. The Travail of Cultural and Religious Renewal."
voted best article to appear in Montana, The Magazine
of Western History. In 1999 Professor Farr was selected
by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of
the American Indiana to serve as the academic scholar
for Blackfeet tribal history for the museum's "Our
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Fifty
Years After The Big Sky:
New Perspectives on the Fiction and
Films of A.B. Guthrie, Jr.,
co-editor and Introduction co-writer
Helena, Montana: Montana Historical Society Press,
2001.
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Additional Works |
The
Reservation Blackfeet, 1885-1945: A Photographic History
of Cultural Survival. (Seattle: University
of Washington Press, 1984.) Received Pacific Northwest
Award for Achievement in Technical Communication, 1985;
Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Award for Excellence,
1985.
Montana: Images of the Past, with K. Ross
Toole. (Boulder, Co: Pruett Publishing Company, 1978.)
John Wyclif as Legal Reformer. Studies in Medieval
and Reformation Thought, Vol. X (Leiden:
Netherlands, 1974.)
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