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Phil Roberts - Law in the Wild West and 100 Years of Wyoming History Trip

   Phil Roberts is associate professor of history, University of Wyoming Department of History, where he has been on the faculty since 1990. He is a native of Lusk, Niobrara County, Wyoming. A 1977 graduate of the University of Wyoming College of Law, he practiced law, worked in public history, owned a publishing company, and published a city magazine in Cheyenne. In the middle 1980s, he entered the University of Washington, Seattle, for a doctorate in history. He was granted the Ph.D. in history in 1990 and, later that year, he was appointed to the faculty at the University of Wyoming where he has taught the history of Wyoming and the West, legal, public and environmental history. He also taught courses in mass media law. Some recent history articles by Phil include: "A History of the Wyoming Sales Tax: How Lawmakers Chose It from Among Severance Taxes, an Income Tax, Gambling, and a Lottery," Wyoming Law Review 4 (2004), pp. 157-244; "Inside Federal Prohibition Enforcement in Wyoming: The Case of Bootlegging Busts in Northern Natrona County, 1928," Annals of Wyoming, Summer, 2002; "Wyoming’s Pioneers of Prohibition," Wyoming Law Review, Summer, 2001; "Scotts Bluff National Monument and the Coming of Television to the Nebraska Panhandle," Nebraska History, Spring, 1996; and "The Prohibition Agency's First Case," Western Legal History, Summer/Fall, 1998. For more information on Phil, please visit http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/ROBERTSHISTORY/biography.htm


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