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WC grad wrote 70 novels
The cover of W. Todhunter Ballard’s book “Gold in California.”
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Editor’s note This is the latest installment in monthly sesquicentennial moments highlighting Wilmington College’s 150-year anniversary, which is being observed through September 2021.
W. Todhunter Ballard (1903-1980), a member of Wilmington College’s class of 1926, achieved distinction as a story writer of 70 western and mystery novels.
He was born in Cleveland and attended Westtown Friends School (Pa.) before enrolling at Wilmington College. During World War II, he was stationed at Wright Field in Dayton and Clinton County Army Airfield.
Ballard began his professional writing career as the editor of an electrical trade magazine. Following college, he gained knowledge in that field when he worked for his father’s company, F.W. Ballard Co., for two years as an engineer constructing power plants and transmission lines.
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Old West adventures await across the Cowboy State’s colorful Carbon County
Quite likely the most gruesome artifact on exhibit in any museum in Wyoming (maybe the West) is the pair of shoes at the Carbon County Museum in Rawlins. They might appear to be just simple leather shoes, and they are…except that the leather is the skin of Big Nose George Parrott.
When on a history tour of Carbon County, Wyoming, a key stop is Encampment’s Grand Encampment Museum, a superior collection of 14 relocated and restored mining camp buildings.
Photo by Candy Moulton
The skinning came after the hanging from a telegraph pole in front of the Hugus Store on Front Street in Rawlins…and that happened after Parrott hit Sheriff James G. Rankin over the head with a pair of shackles and then escaped from the county jail.