Background
Blodgett, Peter John was born on May 16, 1954 in Lancaster, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Benjamin Howard and Lyla Mary Blodgett.
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The Huntington Library holds the most important collection of Gold Rush materials in the United States. This book, a companion piece to the Huntington exhibit of the same title, brings the Gold Rush era to life through vivid anecdotes taken from actual journal entries, newspaper articles, and letters of the period. Lavishly illustrated and well-researched, Land of Golden Dreams is accessible to both historian and lay reader alike.
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Blodgett, Peter John was born on May 16, 1954 in Lancaster, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Benjamin Howard and Lyla Mary Blodgett.
Bachelor, Bowdoin College, 1976. Master of Arts, Yale University, 1978. Master of Public Health, Yale University, 1979.
Teaching assistant Yale University, 1979-1984. H. Russell Smith Foundation curator Western American history Huntington Library., San Marino, California, since 1985. Faculty member Western Archives Institute, 1994-1996, 2000-2002.
Member advisory board research collection Center for the Study of Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University, since 1996. Member editorial board Western History Quarterly, since 2003.
( The Huntington Library holds the most important collect...)
Member Society of America Archivists (manuscripts repositories section steering committee 1997-1999, vice-chair/chair 2000-2002, member awards committee 2001-2003, vice chair/chair Severe aplastic anemia Acquistions and Appraisal section, since 2004), Society California Archivists (chair publications committee 1987-1994, Sustained Service award 1999), Western History Association (membership chair 1995-1998, WHA nominating committee since 2005), Organization American Historians, Mining History Association, Mormon History Association, California History Society.
Married Sara Suzanne Hodson, March 26, 1988.