Background
Pomeroy, Earl was born on December 27, 1915 in Capitola, California, United States. Son of Earl Spencer and Hazel B. (Keesling) Pomeroy.
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The first transcontinental railroads brought fashionable easterners to the American West. In the 1880s and 1890s they traveled in sumptuous “palace cars” and stayed at luxury hotels. Westerners with an eye on promotion turned to what they took to be their own traditions. After 1900 a wilder West became popular; the Indian was rediscovered, and the cowboy returned to the saddle, if only during fiestas and rodeos. Increasing numbers of tourists headed for “natural curiosities” such as the sequoias of Yosemite and the geysers of Yellowstone. Then mass-produced automobiles and cheap air, rail, and bus fares changed the face of western tourism forever. In Search of the Golden West offers splendid old-time photographs and descriptions of nabobs, hucksters, naturalists, dudes, realtors, and motorists—all those who sought the reality and created the myth of the Golden West.
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Pomeroy, Earl was born on December 27, 1915 in Capitola, California, United States. Son of Earl Spencer and Hazel B. (Keesling) Pomeroy.
He received his Bachelor of Arts from San Jose State College in 1936, and subsequently attended the University of California, Berkeley for graduate work, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1940 under the direction of Frederic L. Paxson.
From 1942 to 1945, Pomeroy taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In 1945, he moved to Ohio State University, where he remained until 1949. In that year, he accepted a position at the University of Oregon, where he remained until 1986.
He served as the Beekman Professor of at Oregon.
He served on the Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee. In his time at Oregon, he oversaw 20 doctoral dissertations.
These included those of Thomas R. Cox, Wallace Farnham, John Gimbel, Gene M. Gressley, James East. Hendrickson, Richard Ruetten, Peter Simpson, Jacob H. Dorn, and M. South. van Kataramini. In, 1976 he accepted an appointment at the University of California, San Diego, where he remained until his retirement in 1986.
1942 Beveridge Prize from the American Historian Association (awarded to fund publication of The Territories and the United States).
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Member Organization American Historians, American History Association (president Pacific Coast branch 1969-1970), Agricultural History Association, Western History Association.
Married Mary Catherine Rentz, July 7, 1940 (deceased August 6, 1977). Children– Susan Margaret (Mistress R.E. Guilford), Peter Rentz, James George, Caroline Jane.