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{{Short description|American author (1910–2006)}}
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Marian T. Place was an American author who wrote nonfiction and juvenile fiction books as well as essays relating to the American West. She wrote more than 40 books under her own name and several pseudonyms.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Place, Marian T. (Marian Templeton), 1910-2006 - Social Networks and Archival Context|url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6tb1hp8|access-date=2022-02-24|website=snaccooperative.org}}</ref>
{{Infobox person
| name = Marian T. Place
| birth_name = Marian Whitinger Templeton
| birth_date = {{Birth date |1910|10|10}}
| birth_place = Gary, Indiana
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2006|04|16|1910|10|10}}
| death_place = Portland, Oregon
| education = B.S. University of Minnesota
B.A. Rollins College
MLIS University of Minnesota
| occupation = Author
| awards = Spur Award
Mark Twain Award
Garden State Children's Book Award
}}

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'''Marian T. Place''' was an American author who wrote [[nonfiction]], [[fiction]] and [[Juvenile Fiction|juvenile fiction]] books as well as essays relating to the [[American west|American West]]. She wrote more than 40 books under her own name and several pseudonyms.<ref name="snaccooperative">{{Cite web|title=Place, Marian T. (Marian Templeton), 1910-2006 - Social Networks and Archival Context|url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6tb1hp8|access-date=2022-02-24|website=snaccooperative.org}}</ref>


== Personal life and education ==
== Personal life and education ==
Marian Whitinger Templeton was born in 1910 in [[Gary, Indiana]] to Clarence Ray and Lillian R. Templeton. In 1931, she earned a B.S. from the [[University of Minnesota|University of Minnesota,]] followed in 1935 with a B.A. from [[Rollins College]] in [[Winter Park, Florida|Winter Park, Florida.]] Templeton subsequently earned her Masters of Library Science at the University of Minnesota.<ref name=":0" /> Shortly after completing her education, Templeton met Howard Thirloway Place while working for the [[The Glasgow Courier|Glasgow Courier]] and married him in 1936 in [[Glasgow, Montana]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Collection 95 - Marian T. Place Papers, 1951-1963 - MSU Library {{!}} Montana State University|url=http://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/finding-aids/0095.html?_ga=2.162570556.1401671305.1645636653-1304988945.1579812652|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.lib.montana.edu}}</ref> They went on to have two children, David and Nancy.<ref name=":0" /> Place and her husband moved to Portland, Oregon in 1962 where she resided until her death in 2006.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Marian T. Place Papers 1931-1991 (bulk 1941-1991) Place, (Marian T.)|url=http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/asu/place.xml|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.azarchivesonline.org}}</ref>
Marian Whitinger Templeton was born in 1910 in [[Gary, Indiana]] to Clarence Ray and Lillian R. Templeton. In 1931, she earned a B.S. from the [[University of Minnesota]], followed in 1935 with a B.A. from [[Rollins College]] in [[Winter Park, Florida]]. Templeton subsequently earned her Masters of Library Science at the University of Minnesota.<ref name="snaccooperative"/> Shortly after completing her education, Templeton met Howard Thirloway Place while working for the [[The Glasgow Courier|Glasgow Courier]] and married him in 1936 in [[Glasgow, Montana]].<ref name="montana">{{Cite web|title=Collection 95 - Marian T. Place Papers, 1951-1963 - MSU Library {{!}} Montana State University|url=http://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/finding-aids/0095.html?_ga=2.162570556.1401671305.1645636653-1304988945.1579812652|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.lib.montana.edu}}</ref> They went on to have two children, David and Nancy.<ref name="snaccooperative"/> Place and her husband moved to [[Portland, Oregon]] in 1962 where she resided until her death in 2006.<ref name="azarchivesonline">{{Cite web|title=Marian T. Place Papers 1931-1991 (bulk 1941-1991) Place, (Marian T.)|url=http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/asu/place.xml|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.azarchivesonline.org}}</ref>


== Professional life ==
== Professional life ==
Place published works under her own name and two pseudonyms, Dale White and R.D. Whitinger. When writing about hunting, fishing, the Forest Service, and other science and nature related topics, Place published under Dale White, while R.D. Whitinger was used only briefly when Place dabbled with writing Westerns.<ref name=":2" /> She was the recipient of several awards under one of her pseudonyms and her own name, including the Mark Twain Award.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Marian T. Place Papers 1951-1963 - Archives West|url=https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv41906|access-date=2022-02-24|website=archiveswest.orbiscascade.org}}</ref> Place was a prolific writer, publishing over 40 children's books in addition to magazine articles for [[Montana: The Magazine of Western History]], and books under her pseudonyms.
Place published works under her own name and two pseudonyms, Dale White and R.D. Whitinger. When writing about hunting, fishing, the Forest Service, and other science and nature related topics, Place published under Dale White, while R.D. Whitinger was used only briefly when Place dabbled with writing Westerns.<ref name="azarchivesonline"/> She was the recipient of several awards under one of her pseudonyms and her own name, including the Mark Twain Award.<ref name="orbiscascade">{{Cite web|title=Marian T. Place Papers 1951-1963 - Archives West|url=https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv41906|access-date=2022-02-24|website=archiveswest.orbiscascade.org}}</ref> Place was a prolific writer, publishing over 40 children's books in addition to magazine articles for [[Montana: The Magazine of Western History]], and books under her pseudonyms.


== Published materials ==
== Published materials ==
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Published under <u>Marian T. Place</u>
Published under <u>Marian T. Place</u>


* "The Kid's Corral." Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Autumn 1956, 1957.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=Montana The Magazine of Western History|url=https://mhs.mt.gov/pubs/Magazines/|access-date=2022-02-24|website=mhs.mt.gov}}</ref>
* "The Kid's Corral." Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Autumn 1956, 1957.<ref name="mhs">{{Cite web|title=Montana The Magazine of Western History|url=https://mhs.mt.gov/pubs/Magazines/|access-date=2022-02-24|website=mhs.mt.gov}}</ref>
* "The Endless Debate Rages: Historical Fictionalizing Versus Fact." Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Spring 1955.<ref name=":4" />
* "The Endless Debate Rages: Historical Fictionalizing Versus Fact." Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Spring 1955.<ref name="mhs"/>
* ''The Boy Who Saw Bigfoot''
* ''The Boy Who Saw Bigfoot''
* ''The Witch Who Saved Halloween''
* ''The Witch Who Saved Halloween''
* On the Track of Bigfoot
* ''On the Track of Bigfoot''
* Nobody Meets Bigfoot
* ''Nobody Meets Bigfoot''
* Bigfoot All Over the Country
* ''Bigfoot All Over the Country''
* Cariboo Gold: The Story of the British Columbia Gold Rush
* ''Cariboo Gold: The Story of the British Columbia Gold Rush''
* The Resident Witch
* ''The Resident Witch''
* Mount St. Helen's: A Sleeping Volcano Awakes
* ''Mount St. Helen's: A Sleeping Volcano Awakes''
* The First Astrowitches
* ''The First Astrowitches''
* Marcus and Narcissa Whitman: Oregon Pioneers<ref>{{Cite web|last=ThriftBooks|title=Marian T. Place Books {{!}} List of books by author Marian T. Place|url=https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/marian-t-place/460490/|access-date=2022-02-24|website=ThriftBooks|language=en}}</ref>
* ''Marcus and Narcissa Whitman: Oregon Pioneers<ref>{{Cite web|last=ThriftBooks|title=Marian T. Place Books {{!}} List of books by author Marian T. Place|url=https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/marian-t-place/460490/|access-date=2022-02-24|website=ThriftBooks|language=en}}</ref>''
* The Copper Kings of Montana
* ''The Copper Kings of Montana''
* Westward on the Oregon Trail
* ''Westward on the Oregon Trail''
* Gold Down Under
* ''Gold Down Under''
* Mountain Man
* ''Mountain Man''
* Comanches and Other Indians of Texas
* ''Comanches and Other Indians of Texas''
* The Frontiersman: The True Story of Billy Dixon
* ''The Frontiersman: The True Story of Billy Dixon''
* American Cattle Trails East and West
* ''American Cattle Trails East and West''
* The Yukon<ref>{{Cite web|title=Books by Marian T. Place (Author of The Resident Witch)|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/507610.Marian_T_Place|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.goodreads.com}}</ref>
* ''The Yukon''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Books by Marian T. Place (Author of The Resident Witch)|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/507610.Marian_T_Place|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.goodreads.com}}[[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]</ref>



Published under <u>Dale White</u>
Published under <u>Dale White</u>


* The Singing Boones
* ''The Singing Boones''
* Is Something Up There?
* ''Is Something Up There?''
* Young Deputy Smith
* ''Young Deputy Smith''
* Hold Back the Hunter
* ''Hold Back the Hunter''
* The Johnny Cake McNe
* ''The Johnny Cake McNe''
* Vigilantes, Ride!
* ''Vigilantes, Ride!''
* Steamboat Up the Missouri
* ''Steamboat Up the Missouri''
* Gifford Pinchot, The Man Who Saved Forests
* ''Gifford Pinchot, The Man Who Saved Forests''
* Bat Masterson
* ''Bat Masterson''
* Thunder in his Mo<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dale White Books|url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/21067096-thunder-in-his-mo|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.goodreads.com}}</ref>
* ''Thunder in his Mo''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dale White Books|url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/21067096-thunder-in-his-mo|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.goodreads.com}}[[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]</ref>


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Published under <u>R.D. Whitinger</u>


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* ''High Trail''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Whitinger|first=R. D.|url=https://www.amazon.com/High-Trail-R-D-Whitinger/dp/B002BHJQMI|title=High Trail|date=1958-01-01|publisher=Pyramid Books}}</ref>
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Published under R.D. Whitinger
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* ''Bitterroot Basin''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bitterroot Basin - AbeBooks|url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/bitterroot-basin/|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.abebooks.co.uk|language=en-GB}}</ref>

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* High Trail<ref>{{Cite book|last=Whitinger|first=R. D.|url=https://www.amazon.com/High-Trail-R-D-Whitinger/dp/B002BHJQMI|title=High Trail|date=1958-01-01|publisher=Pyramid Books}}</ref>
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* Bitterroot Basin<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bitterroot Basin - AbeBooks|url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/bitterroot-basin/|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.abebooks.co.uk|language=en-GB}}</ref>


== Awards ==
== Awards ==
Under the pseudonym Dale White, Place was awarded the [[Spur Award]] from the Western Writers of America two times. The first was for ''Steamboat Up the Missouri'' in 1958 and the second was for ''Hold Back the Hunter'' in 1959.<ref name=":3" />
Under the pseudonym Dale White, Place was awarded the [[Spur Award]] from the Western Writers of America two times. The first was for ''Steamboat Up the Missouri'' in 1958 and the second was for ''Hold Back the Hunter'' in 1959.<ref name="orbiscascade"/>


Under her own name, Place received the [[Mark Twain Award]] for ''The Boy Who Saw Bigfoot'' in 1982.<ref name=":1" />
Under her own name, Place received the [[Mark Twain Award]] for ''The Boy Who Saw Bigfoot'' in 1982.<ref name="montana"/> She also was awarded the Garden State's Children Book Award in 1977 for ''On the Track of Bigfoot.''<ref name="snaccooperative" /> Place was nominated for the California Young Reader Medal for ''The Boy Who Saw Bigfoot'' in 1982–1983.<ref name="snaccooperative" />

== Legacy ==
There are several archival collections of Marian T. Place's work, including at [[Montana State University]]'s [[Merrill G. Burlingame|Merril G. Burlingame]] [[Montana State University Archives and Special Collections|Archives and Special Collections]], at the [[Arizona State University]] Archives, and at the [[University of Wyoming]].

== References ==
{{Reflist}}


== External links ==
== External links ==


* [http://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/finding-aids/0095.html?_ga=2.162570556.1401671305.1645636653-1304988945.1579812652 Collection 095, Marian T. Place Papers, 1951-1963]. Held at Montana State University's [https://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/ Archives and Special Collections].
* [http://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/finding-aids/0095.html?_ga=2.162570556.1401671305.1645636653-1304988945.1579812652 Collection 095, Marian T. Place Papers, 1951-1963]. Held at Montana State University's [https://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/ Archives and Special Collections].
* [http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/asu/place.xml Marian T. Place Papers, 1931-1991]. Held at [[Arizona State University]] Archives.
* [http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/asu/place.xml Marian T. Place Papers, 1931-1991]. Held at [[Arizona State University]] Archives.
* [http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/search Arizona Archives Online.]
* [http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/search Arizona Archives Online.]
* ''Buckskins and Buffalo: The Story of the Yellowstone River.'' {{Cite book|last=Place|first=Marian T|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28205590|title=Marian T. Place manuscript|date=1964|language=English|oclc=28205590}} Manuscript held by the [[University of Wyoming]], [http://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/ American Heritage Center.]
* ''[https://msu-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01TRAILS_ALMA71145590630003366&context=L&vid=01TRAILS_MSU&lang=en_US&search_scope=01TRAILS_MSU&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=everything&query=any,contains,marian%20t.%20place&sortby=rank Mystery of the Wild Horse Trap.]'' Held at Montana State University's [https://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/ Archives and Special Collections.]

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Latest revision as of 18:22, 24 September 2023

Marian T. Place
Born
Marian Whitinger Templeton

(1910-10-10)October 10, 1910
Gary, Indiana
DiedApril 16, 2006(2006-04-16) (aged 95)
Portland, Oregon
EducationB.S. University of Minnesota

B.A. Rollins College

MLIS University of Minnesota
OccupationAuthor
AwardsSpur Award

Mark Twain Award

Garden State Children's Book Award

Marian T. Place was an American author who wrote nonfiction, fiction and juvenile fiction books as well as essays relating to the American West. She wrote more than 40 books under her own name and several pseudonyms.[1]

Personal life and education

[edit]

Marian Whitinger Templeton was born in 1910 in Gary, Indiana to Clarence Ray and Lillian R. Templeton. In 1931, she earned a B.S. from the University of Minnesota, followed in 1935 with a B.A. from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Templeton subsequently earned her Masters of Library Science at the University of Minnesota.[1] Shortly after completing her education, Templeton met Howard Thirloway Place while working for the Glasgow Courier and married him in 1936 in Glasgow, Montana.[2] They went on to have two children, David and Nancy.[1] Place and her husband moved to Portland, Oregon in 1962 where she resided until her death in 2006.[3]

Professional life

[edit]

Place published works under her own name and two pseudonyms, Dale White and R.D. Whitinger. When writing about hunting, fishing, the Forest Service, and other science and nature related topics, Place published under Dale White, while R.D. Whitinger was used only briefly when Place dabbled with writing Westerns.[3] She was the recipient of several awards under one of her pseudonyms and her own name, including the Mark Twain Award.[4] Place was a prolific writer, publishing over 40 children's books in addition to magazine articles for Montana: The Magazine of Western History, and books under her pseudonyms.

Published materials

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The following list contains some of Place's writing, both magazine articles and books.

Published under Marian T. Place

  • "The Kid's Corral." Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Autumn 1956, 1957.[5]
  • "The Endless Debate Rages: Historical Fictionalizing Versus Fact." Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Spring 1955.[5]
  • The Boy Who Saw Bigfoot
  • The Witch Who Saved Halloween
  • On the Track of Bigfoot
  • Nobody Meets Bigfoot
  • Bigfoot All Over the Country
  • Cariboo Gold: The Story of the British Columbia Gold Rush
  • The Resident Witch
  • Mount St. Helen's: A Sleeping Volcano Awakes
  • The First Astrowitches
  • Marcus and Narcissa Whitman: Oregon Pioneers[6]
  • The Copper Kings of Montana
  • Westward on the Oregon Trail
  • Gold Down Under
  • Mountain Man
  • Comanches and Other Indians of Texas
  • The Frontiersman: The True Story of Billy Dixon
  • American Cattle Trails East and West
  • The Yukon[7]

Published under Dale White

  • The Singing Boones
  • Is Something Up There?
  • Young Deputy Smith
  • Hold Back the Hunter
  • The Johnny Cake McNe
  • Vigilantes, Ride!
  • Steamboat Up the Missouri
  • Gifford Pinchot, The Man Who Saved Forests
  • Bat Masterson
  • Thunder in his Mo[8]

Published under R.D. Whitinger

Awards

[edit]

Under the pseudonym Dale White, Place was awarded the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America two times. The first was for Steamboat Up the Missouri in 1958 and the second was for Hold Back the Hunter in 1959.[4]

Under her own name, Place received the Mark Twain Award for The Boy Who Saw Bigfoot in 1982.[2] She also was awarded the Garden State's Children Book Award in 1977 for On the Track of Bigfoot.[1] Place was nominated for the California Young Reader Medal for The Boy Who Saw Bigfoot in 1982–1983.[1]

Legacy

[edit]

There are several archival collections of Marian T. Place's work, including at Montana State University's Merril G. Burlingame Archives and Special Collections, at the Arizona State University Archives, and at the University of Wyoming.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Place, Marian T. (Marian Templeton), 1910-2006 - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  2. ^ a b "Collection 95 - Marian T. Place Papers, 1951-1963 - MSU Library | Montana State University". www.lib.montana.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  3. ^ a b "Marian T. Place Papers 1931-1991 (bulk 1941-1991) Place, (Marian T.)". www.azarchivesonline.org. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  4. ^ a b "Marian T. Place Papers 1951-1963 - Archives West". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  5. ^ a b "Montana The Magazine of Western History". mhs.mt.gov. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  6. ^ ThriftBooks. "Marian T. Place Books | List of books by author Marian T. Place". ThriftBooks. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  7. ^ "Books by Marian T. Place (Author of The Resident Witch)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2022-02-24.[self-published]
  8. ^ "Dale White Books". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2022-02-24.[self-published]
  9. ^ Whitinger, R. D. (1958-01-01). High Trail. Pyramid Books.
  10. ^ "Bitterroot Basin - AbeBooks". www.abebooks.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
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