Wood, W. Raymond 1931–

PERSONAL: Born May 18, 1931, in Gordon, NE; son of Elbert S. (a railroad employee) and Vera (an employee of the U.S. Army Air Forces; maiden name, Hiatt) Wood; married Bonny L. Humphrey (divorced); married Carolee Ramey (a resumé writer), February 15, 1992; children: Elbert Stanley, David Eric, Marigene Wood Holtkamp. Ethnicity: "White." Education: University of Nebraska, B.A., 1954, M.A., 1956; University of Oregon, Ph.D., 1961. Hobbies and other interests: Reading, natural history.

ADDRESSES: Office—c/o Department of Anthropology, 107 Swallow Hall, University of Missouri—Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211-1440. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Writer, anthropologist, historian, and educator. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, field assistant, 1950–55; State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, archaeologist, 1954–56, 1960; University of Missouri—Columbia, curator and research associate, 1957–58, professor, 1963–2002, professor emeritus, 2002–, Byler Distinguished Professor, 1998; University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, curator of anthropology, 1961–62. Missouri State Advisory Council for Historic Preservation, member, 1973–77, 1995–98.

MEMBER: Society for American Archaeology, American Quaternary Association, Plains Anthropological Society.

AWARDS, HONORS: Alumni Achievement award, University of Nebraska, 1998; Heritage Profile Honor Award, State Historical Society of North Dakota, 2002.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with R. Bruce McMillan, and contributor) Prehistoric Man and His Environments: A Case Study in the Ozark Highland, Academic Press (New York, NY), 1976.

(Editor) G. Hubert Smith, The Explorations of the La Vérendryes in the Northern Plains, 1738–1743, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1980.

(Editor, with Margot Liberty, and contributor) Anthropology on the Great Plains, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1980.

(With Thomas D. Thiessen) Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains: Canadian Traders among the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, 1738–1818, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), 1985.

Or Go down in Flame: The Death of a Navigator over Schweinfurt, Greenhill Books (New York, NY), 1993.

(With Michael J. O'Brien) The Prehistory of Missouri, University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 1998.

(Editor) Archaeology on the Great Plains, University Press of Kansas (Lawrence, KS), 1998.

(With Joseph C. Porter and David C. Hunt, and contributor) Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: The Newberry Library Bodmer Collection, University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL), 2002.

Contributor to books, including Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 1, edited by Michael B. Schiffer, Academic Press (New York, NY), 1978; Mapping the North American Plains, edited by Fred C. Luebke, F.W. Kaye, and Gary E. Moulton, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), 1987; Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 2, edited by Michael B. Schiffer, University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ), 1990; Great Raids in History: From Drake to Desert One, edited by Samuel A. Southworth, Sarpedon Press (New York, NY), 1997; and The Story of the West: A History of the American West and Its People, edited by Robert M. Utley, Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, DC), 2003. Contributor to periodicals, including Western Historical Quarterly, North Dakota History, Great Plains Quarterly, Nebraska History, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Missouri Historical Review, Journal of Anthropological Research, and Journal of African History. Editor, Plains Anthropologist, 1972–74, and American Antiquity, 1973–78.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Editing the letters and journal of Henry A. Boller, a fur trader along the Upper Missouri River, to be published by the State Historical Society of North Dakota; research on the art work of General Regis de Trobriand, who commanded Fort Stevenson, a military post in North Dakota in the 1860s.

SIDELIGHTS: W. Raymond Wood told CA: "I've been a professional archaeologist and historian for my entire career, and my publications report the results of my research, which constitute not only my professional but my avocational interests."