Background
Cracken, Harold Mc was born on August 31, 1894 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. Son of James Owen and Laura Gladys (Crapsey) McCracken.
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Cracken, Harold Mc was born on August 31, 1894 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. Son of James Owen and Laura Gladys (Crapsey) McCracken.
Educated, Drake University, 1911-1913, Ohio State University, 1914-1915. Doctor of Letters, Hope College, 1957, U. Alaska, 1966. Doctor of Humane Letters, Colorado State University, 1972, Saint Lawrence University, 1980.
Doctor of Laws, University Wyoming, 1974.
Ornithological collector for Iowa State Museum, Des Moines, 1912. Leader Ohio State University expedition to Alaska, 1915-1917.
Mining in, Alaska, 1919-1920. Leader Ohio State Museum photo-science expedition, to secure picture record of Alaska brown bear and other big game, 1922, 23, lecturer on Alaskan and Arctic wild life.
Regarded as authority on Alaska brown bear.
Director. Director Buffalo Bill History Center, also Whitney Museum Western Art, Cody, Wyoming, 1958-1974, director emeritus, from 1974.
Director Buffalo Bill History.
Author: 31 books including Iglaome (fiction), 1930, God’s Frozen Children (travel), 1930, Pershing-The Story of a Great Soldier, 1931, Alaska Bear Trails (travel), 1931, Frederic Remington-Artist of the Old West, 1947, Caribou Traveler, 1949, The Flaming Bear, 1951, Portrait of the Old West, 1952, Pirate of the North, 1953, The Beast That Walks Like Man, 1955, Winning of the West, 1955, Story of Alaska, 1956, Hunters of the Stormy Sea, 1957, The Charles M. Russell Book, 1957, Hoofs, Claws and Antlers, 1958, George Catlin and the Old Frontier, 1959, Frederic Remington’s Own West, 1960, The Frederic Remington Book, 1966, Roughnecks and Gentlemen, 1968, The American Cowboy, 1973, The Frank Tenney Johnson Book, 1974.
Served as sergeant photographic section Signal Corps, and on special duty intelligence and aviation research divisions, department physics Columbia University World War I. Member Dutch Reformed Church. Clubs: Douglaston (Long Island).
Married Angelyn Elizabeth Conrad, October 23, 1924. Children: Harold Conrad, Marjorie Angelyn.