Illinois Wesleyan University, The University of Iowa
Occupation(s)
Educator, Historian, Social Activist
Partner
Agnes Wergeland
Wyoming pioneer Grace Raymond Hebard broke new ground as a university administrator, historian, and social activist. The intrepid field researcher explored Wyoming's countryside for most of her adult life, seeking to document a fast-disappearing frontier.
Grace Raymond Hebard (July 2, 1861 – October 1936) was an American historian, suffragist, scholar, writer, political economist, and noted University of Wyoming educator. Hebard's standing as a historian in part rose from her years trekking Wyoming's high plains and mountains seeking first-hand accounts of Wyoming's early pioneers. Today, her books on Wyoming history are sometimes challenged due to her romanticization of the Old West, spurring questions regarding accuracy of her research findings. In particular, her conclusion after decades of field research that Sacajawea (participant in the Lewis and Clark Expedition) was buried in Wyoming's Wind River Indian Reservation is questioned.[1]
Hebard served as the first female on the University of Wyoming Board of Trustees, where she exercised authority over the university finances, its president, and faculty.[2] Her University of Wyoming role extended to establishing the university's first library. Hebard served as a professor for 28 years. She was also the first woman admitted to the Wyoming State Bar Association (1898);[3] admitted to practice before the Wyoming Supreme Court (1914); and appointed by her peers as vice president of the National Society of Women Lawyers.[4][when?]
She was active in Wyoming political life, giving speeches, organizing historical associations, conducting citizenship classes for immigrants, participating in the local and national suffragist movement, lobbying for child-welfare laws, serving as a Red Cross volunteer, and selling war bonds during World War I.
^"Sacajawea legend may not be correct," by Sandy Mickelson. The Messenger; Fort Dodge, Iowa. The reporter recounts the findings from "Also Called Sacajawea: Chief Woman's Stolen Identity," by Thomas H. Johnson. Johnson argues that Hebard had the wrong woman when she relied upon oral history that an old woman who died and is buried on the Wyoming Wind River Reservation was Sacajawea, the Shoshone woman who participated in the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Other research claims that instead, Sacajawea is buried at Fort Manuel on South Dakota's Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
^"Wyoming University: The First 100 Years, 1886-1986," by Deborah Hardy. University of Wyoming, 1986.
^American Women Historians, 1700s - 1990s; by Jennifer Scanlon, Shaaron
^"In memoriam; Grace Raymond Hebard, 1861-1936". The Library of Congress. American Memory. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
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