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Members of the Potomac Corral of the Westerners
B. W. (BILL) ALLRED (January 17, 1904 - December 14, 1976) was a native of Utah. He held B.S. and M.S. degrees from Utah Agricultural College and took additional graduate work at the University of ...view moreB. W. (BILL) ALLRED (January 17, 1904 - December 14, 1976) was a native of Utah. He held B.S. and M.S. degrees from Utah Agricultural College and took additional graduate work at the University of Nebraska. He was a cowboy in Utah, a sheepherder in Wyoming, and a county agent in Colorado before joining the Soil Conservation Service in 1935. He then became the Ranch Planning Specialist in the Washington office of the Soil Conservation Service, collecting Western Americana, specializing in books on range life. He was the author of Range Conservation Practices for the Great Plains; Practical Grassland Management; (with J. C. Dykes) Flat Top Ranch; and over four hundred articles and book reviews.
J. C. (JEFF) DYKES (June 20, 1900 - December 31, 1989) was a native of Texas. He was a graduate of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College and a former faculty member of his alma mater. He then became Assistant Administrator of the Soil Conservation Service. He was an ardent collector of Western books and an outstanding authority on Western Americana. He was the author of Billy the Kid: The Bibliography of a Legend and numerous articles and papers on Western books and conservation. In 1950 he became an associate editor of The Brand Book, the official monthly publication of the Chicago Corral, The Westerners.
FRANK GOODWYN (1911-2001) was born in South Texas and grew up on the King Ranch. He held degrees in English and Spanish from Texas A&I University in Kingsville and earned a Ph.D. in Spanish and Folklore from the University of Texas at Austin. He twice held the J. Frank Dobie Fellowship in Southwestern Literature. He was the author of two novels, The Magic of Limping John (named Best Texas Book of the Year by the Texas Institute of Letters in 1944) and The Black Bull, as well as poems, folk tales, and articles on the craft of writing. He was a professor emeritus of the University of Maryland and lived in Silver Spring, Maryland.view less