Junge, Mark

1943 -

Cheyenne, WY

junges@bresnan.net

Laramie County

Biographical and Professional Information

Historian-photographer Mark Junge was born in 1943 in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Denver, Colorado. He has a B.A. in History (1965) and an M.A. in Social Studies (1967) from Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado. He and his wife, Ardath, have called Wyoming home since 1967 when historian T.A. Larson asked Mark to accept an assistantship at the University of Wyoming.

Junge's career as an historian began in 1971 at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office in Cheyenne where he eventually became Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer. He was named as Wyoming State Historian and served three years as editor of the state's quarterly history magazine, Wyoming Annals, before retiring from state government in 1995.

Junge's avocations include freelance writing, photography, and bicycling. Dependant on supplemental oxygen, in 2006 he completed a transcontinental bicycle trip across North America with the help of portable, liquid oxygen. Mark and Ardath have two sons, Andrew and Daniel, both of whom are married.

Genres

Autobiography or Biography

History

Nonfiction

Wyoming Subjects

Titles

• A View from Center Street: Tom Carrigen's Casper (2003). Casper, WY: McMurray Foundation. ISBN: 097461470X. Photographs by Tom Carrigen.

• The Wind is My Witness: A Wyoming album (1997). Niwot, CO: Roberts Rinehart Pub. ISBN: 1570981493.

• Wyoming, a Pictorial History (1989). Norfolk, VA: Donning Co. ISBN: 0898657482.

• J.E. Stimson, Photographer of the West (1985). Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN: 0803225652.

• A Guide to Historic Sites (1976). Basin, WY: Big Horn Publishers. ISBN: 0-89100-003-3.

Speaking Engagements

Contact: Mark Junge, 7719 Ridge Rd., Cheyenne, WY, 82009; (307) 634-7462

Upcoming appearances

Equality State Book Festival Sept. 18-20, 2008, Casper.