Billings Gazette - Billings, MT
Sunday - 29 December 1957
Page 8 - Column 4
Western Author Rites Are Set
Funeral services for a western author, Walter S. Campbell, who wrote about 20 books on western history under the pseudonym, Stanley Vestal, will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Custer Battlefield National Monument Cemetery near Crow Agency.
Mr. Campbell died Wednesday in Norman, Okla.
The Rev. J. H. Hill of Billings, pastor of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Chapel, will conduct the service.
Mr. Campbell was a professor of journalism and creative writing at the University of Oklahoma in Norman at the time of his death. He had planned to retire after the current school year.
Among his best known works are “Jim Bridger, Mountain Man,” “Joe Meek,” “Sitting Bull” and “War Drums and Camp Fires.”
He also wrote the book on the Missouri River for the “Rivers of America” series.
He was born in Kansas in 1887 and moved at an early age to the Cheyenne Indian country in western Oklahoma. He was a Rhodes scholar and during World War I was a captain of artillery. Mr. Campbell also was a judge of the Miss Indian America contest during All-American Indian Days in Sheridan, Wyo.
He visited Don Rickey, Custer Battlefield historian, in August. After touring the cemetery and studying its historical significance, he asked that he be buried there.
Surviving is a daughter in Washington, D.C.
Billings Gazette - Billings, MT
Sunday - 29 December 1957
Page 8 - Column 4
Western Author Rites Are Set
Funeral services for a western author, Walter S. Campbell, who wrote about 20 books on western history under the pseudonym, Stanley Vestal, will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Custer Battlefield National Monument Cemetery near Crow Agency.
Mr. Campbell died Wednesday in Norman, Okla.
The Rev. J. H. Hill of Billings, pastor of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Chapel, will conduct the service.
Mr. Campbell was a professor of journalism and creative writing at the University of Oklahoma in Norman at the time of his death. He had planned to retire after the current school year.
Among his best known works are “Jim Bridger, Mountain Man,” “Joe Meek,” “Sitting Bull” and “War Drums and Camp Fires.”
He also wrote the book on the Missouri River for the “Rivers of America” series.
He was born in Kansas in 1887 and moved at an early age to the Cheyenne Indian country in western Oklahoma. He was a Rhodes scholar and during World War I was a captain of artillery. Mr. Campbell also was a judge of the Miss Indian America contest during All-American Indian Days in Sheridan, Wyo.
He visited Don Rickey, Custer Battlefield historian, in August. After touring the cemetery and studying its historical significance, he asked that he be buried there.
Surviving is a daughter in Washington, D.C.
Bio by: Steve Dunn
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