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A Guide to the Glen L. Evans Oral History, 1991
Biographical NoteGlen L. Evans was born on January 22, 1911, on a stock farm a few miles west of Henrietta in north-central Texas. He was educated in his early years in a two-teacher country school, then attended Henrietta High School, graduating in 1928. He spent the next few years of the Great Depression working fields and livestock and began studying geology at the University of Texas at Austin in 1934. He served as a student assistant under Dr. E. H. Sellards in the UT Bureau of Economic Geology and in 1936 became Supervisor of a Federal Works Progress Administration Mineral Resource Survey Project, a role he held until 1939. From that time until 1941, when the WPA program was terminated, Evans served as Geologist-in-charge of the statewide Mineralogical and Paleontological Survey of Texas. A major accomplishment of this position was amassing a very large and diverse collection of vertebrate fossils, ranging from the upper Paleozoic era to the Holocene era. In 1941, Evans became Assistant Director of the Texas Memorial Museum. Years later, he would become the Associate Director, under E. H. Sellards. During this time he remained on the staff of the Bureau of Economic Geology, conducting field work on deposits of strategic minerals. A major accomplishment of his time with the Texas Memorial Museum involved the excavation of important Early Man Sites in Texas. Evans left UT in 1953, becoming a Petroleum Geologist for the Louisiana Land and Exploration Company in Midland, Texas. Still with the company, in 1968 he moved to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and in 1970 moved to Denver to serve as Director of the Minerals Division. Evans retired in 1975 and moved back to Austin, where he spent the rest of his days writing on subjects pertaining to natural history, including a small book of nature stories entitled Wildness at Risk, and doing geological consulting work for UT and other agencies. He was a member of the Geological Society of America, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and served as president and honorary life member of the West Texas Geological Society. The Texas Memorial Museum houses great numbers of collections amassed from Glen's years of work, including fossils, minerals, tools, and artifacts. Glen Evans, known as the "Dean of Texas Paleontology" and the "Father of Geoarchaeology", died on July 14, 2010. Source: Obituary of Glen L. Evans, Austin American-Statesman, July 25, 2010 Return to the Table of Contents Scope and ContentsThe Glen L. Evans Oral History, 1991, is comprised of seven audiotapes and a transcript of the oral history interview with Glen Evans conducted by Fred Burchsted, former archivist at the Center for American History (now the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History). Return to the Table of Contents RestrictionsAccess RestrictionsUse of audio material by appointment only; please contact sound archivist for more information. Return to the Table of Contents
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Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationPreferred CitationGlen L. Evans Oral History, 1991, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin. Processing InformationThis collection was processed by archives staff, 1996. Subsequent revisions were made by Jessi Fishman, June 2016. Return to the Table of Contents Detailed Description of the Papers
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