William Turrentine Jackson

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W. Turrentine "Turpie" Jackson (1915, Ruston, Louisiana – 28 May 2000) was an American professor of history, specializing in Western U.S. history.[1][2]

Biography

Jackson grew up in El Paso, Texas.

Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso) and in 1940 with Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, where his thesis advisor was Walter Prescott Webb.[1] Jackson taught at UCLA, Iowa State University, the University of Chicago,[3] the University of Glasgow, and four other universities and also served in the intelligence division of the U. S. Navy, before he joined in 1951 the faculty of the history department of the University of California, Davis. He taught there until he began phased retirement in 1982 with full retirement in 1985.[1]

Jackson's research covered policy history and social history.[1] He debunked the stereotype of rugged individualism and small property owners in the Old West with evidence for development involving U.S. government surveys,[3] U.S. federal subsidies, and international capital.[1][4] He published extensively and served on the editorial boards of several academic journals. Three of his books won prizes.[3]

Wells Fargo hired Jackson as a consultant and corporate historian.[5]

As a consulting historian to the company for 20 years, he had 13 monographs and articles on the company’s history in the Western states published in scholarly journals. Taking on other projects for law firms, environmental consultants and government agencies, he became a partner in JRP Historical Consulting Services in Davis. He retired from the company in 1990.[3]

With his wife, Barbara, he endowed an undergraduate history scholarship, and both a graduate fellowship and a faculty chair in the history of the American West. The Jacksons were also major benefactors to the Western History Association and the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, both of which have named major scholarly awards in Turpie's honor.[1]

Awards and honors

  • 1957 — Guggenheim Fellowship for the academic year 1957–1958[6]
  • 1964 — Guggenheim Fellowship for the academic year 1964–1965[6]
  • 1977 — elected president of the Western History Association

Selected publications

Articles

Books

as editor

  • Eno, Henry (1965). Twenty years on the Pacific Slope; letters of Henry Eno from California and Nevada, 1848-1871. Edited and with an introd. by W. Turrentine Jackson. New Haven: Yale University Press.[12][13]
  • Windeler, Adolphus (1969). California Gold Rush diary of a German sailor. Illustrated with pencil sketches by his inseparable partner Carl (Charley) Friderich Christendorff. Edited and with an introd. by W. Turrentine Jackson. Berkeley, California: Howell-North Books.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Margadant, Ted; Bauer, Arnold; Warren, Louis. "William Turrentine Jackson, History: Davis; 1915–2000, Professor". Calisphere, University of California.
  2. JSTOR 3378866
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  3. ^ a b c d e Easley, Julia Ann (2 June 2000). "Historian Jackson dies at age 85". UC Davis.
  4. ^ "William Turrentine Jackson, Professor of History UC Davis, 1915–2000". In Memoriam: Davis Campus, University of California.
  5. ISBN 9780743227629
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  6. ^ a b "W. Turrentine Jackson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  7. JSTOR 1897567
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  8. JSTOR 3636221
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  9. JSTOR 1898704
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  10. JSTOR 3636751
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  11. S2CID 154545792
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  12. JSTOR 1893956
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  13. ^ Porter, Kenneth Wiggins (1966). "W. Turrentine Jackson, ed., Twenty Years on the Pacific Coast: Letters of Henry Eno From California and Nevada, 1848-1871 (Book Review)". Northwest Review. 8 (1): 117.
  14. JSTOR 967870
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