Camp, Walter Mason, 1867-1925

[Walter Mason Camp (1867-1925) was a railroad engineer and writer in the midwestern United States. Camp also performed research on the history of the India Wars of the Plains, in particular the Battle of the Little Big Horn of 1876.]

found: Brigham Young University. Lib. Arch. A register of the Walter Mason Camp papers, 1981

found: Railroad transportation at the universal exposition, 1904:p. 1132 (W.M. Camp)

found: Walter Mason Camp papers, 1884-1925(Walter Camp was born April 21, 1867 to Treat Bosworth Camp and Hannah A. Brown in Camptown, Pennsylvania; in 1883 he began his railroad service on the Lehigh Valley Railroad as a trackman, which would lead to his forty-two year railroad career; he entered Pennsylvania State College in the fall of 1887, and graduated as a civil engineer in 1891; in 1895 Camp resumed post graduate studies in electrical and steam engineering at the University of Wisconsin; in 1898 Walter married Emeline L.F. Sayles in Blue Island, Illinois; Walter Camp became the engineering editor of the "Railway and Engineering Review" in 1897 and served as a railway editor for the following twenty-eight years; Camp's interest in documenting the Indian Wars began in 1903, after which his vacations for the following twenty summers were spent in research among the Indians and in talking with people who had survived the Little Bighorn River fight and other battles; he personally visited over forty battlefields and interviewed almost 200 survivors of western battles; Walter Camp died on August 3, 1925 in Kankakee, Illinois having published very little of his Indian wars research, but having collected an amount of original source material during his lifetime)

[Walter Mason Camp (1867-1925) was a railroad engineer and writer in the midwestern United States. Camp also performed research on the history of the India Wars of the Plains, in particular the Battle of the Little Big Horn of 1876.]