log inhelp

 

Lavinia Dobler

Dobler, Lavinia

1910 - 2005

Riverton, WY 82501

 

Fremont County

 

Biographical and Professional Information

 

Lavinia Dobler and her sister Virginia were the first twins born in Riverton, in 1910. Their parents had drawn lotteries for some of the first homesteads filed on in the area and their father later served as director of the First State Bank in Riverton, and in the Wyoming legislature. The twins attended high school and college in Long Beach, California, where they worked for competing newspapers. Lavinia was a feature writer, her sister a courier, until both young women earned their degrees and returned to Riverton to teach in elementary schools. When her sister married, Lavinia applied for and was accepted as an English supervisor in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She later served as librarian at Scholastic Magazines, where she remained until her retirement. During that period she published 36 books and won the Dodd-Mead "National Librarian of the Year" award. She retired in Riverton, where her octagonal log home was built. (Source: Wyoming in Profile and Westerners by [Jean Henry-Mead]).

Genres

 

Autobiography or Biography

Children's or Young Adult

Fiction

History

Nonfiction

Wyoming Subjects

 

Titles

 

  • Fremont County, Wyoming: A pictorial history (1995). Publisher City, State: Donning. ISBN: (?).

 

  • Esther Morris, First Woman Justice of the Peace (1993). Riverton, WY: Big Bend Press. ISBN: (?).

 

  • Rendezvous on the Wind: Plenty of trade, whiskey, and white women (1990). Riverton, WY: Big Bend Press. ISBN: 0962565040. Co-author Loren Jost.

 

  • I Didn't Know That About Wyoming (1984). Selah, WA: Misty Mountain Press. ISBN: 0914781030. Illustrations by William Little.

 

  • Wild Wind, Wild Water (1983). Casper, WY: Misty Mountain Press. ISBN: 0914781006.

 

  • I Didn't Know That (1978). New York: Scholastic Book Service. ISBN: (?).

 

  • Animals at Work (1973). New York: Scholastic Book Service. ISBN: (?).

 

  • When Greatness Called: Stories of courage in America (1970). New York: Barnes & Noble. ISBN: (?).

 

  • National Holidays Around the World (1968). New York: Fleet Press. ISBN: (?). Co-author Vivian Browne.

 

  • United Nations Day and Holidays (1967). Publisher City, State: Silver, Burdette and Co. ISBN: (?).

 

  • Dobler World Dictionary of Youth Periodicals (1966). Publisher City, State: Publisher Name. ISBN: (?).

 

  • Arrow Book of United Nations (1965). New York: Scholastic Book Service. ISBN: (?).

 

  • The Land and People of Uruguay (1965). Philadelphia, PA: J P Lippincott Co. ISBN: (?).

 

  • Lee De Forest, Electronics Boy (1965). Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill. ISBN: (?). Illustrated by William Moyers.

 

  • Great Rulers of the African Past (1965). Garden City, NY: Doubleday. ISBN: (?). Co-author William Brown.

 

  • Pioneers and Patriots (1965). Garden City, NY: Doubleday. ISBN: (?). Co-author Edgar Allan Toppin.

 

  • Customs and Holidays Around the World (1962). New York: Fleet Press. ISBN: (?).

 

  • Cyrus McCormick, Farmer Boy (1961). Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill. ISBN: (?).

 

  • First American History Book (1960). Publisher City, State: Platt. ISBN: (?).

 

  • Black Gold at Titusville (1959). New York: Dodd, Mead. ISBN: (?).

 

  • Business of Their Own (1958). New York: Dodd, Mead. ISBN: (?).

 

  • Glass House (1957). Publisher City, State: Publisher Name. ISBN: (?).

 

  • Glass House at Jamestown (1957). New York: Dodd. ISBN: (?).

 

  • Dobler International List of Periodicals for Boys and Girls (Year). Publisher City, State: Publisher Name. ISBN: (?).

 

  • National Costumes Around the World (Year). Publisher City, State: Publisher Name. ISBN: (?).

Printable version