In the company of T. B. Veblen: A narrative of biographical recovery

International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 273-331

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9. See, for example, Cabela's Master Catalog, Spring 1999 (Sidney, NB: Cabela's Inc, 1999). Pp. 508.
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13. Mitchell County Historical Society, comp., The Story of Mitchell County, 1851-1973 (Mason City, IA: Klipto Printing Co., [1973]).
14. See, for example, Robert Griffin, "What Veblen Owed to Pierce-The Social Theory of Logic," Journal of Economic Issues 32:3 (September 1998): 733-757.
15. th revised edition (Clifton, NJ: Kelley, 1972).
16. For sample critiques of Dorfman, see our article "In Search of Thorstein Veblen: Further Inquiries into His Life and Work," this Journal 11, no. 1 (Fall 1997): 129-173;
17. and Stephen Edgell, "Rescuing Veblen from Valhalla: deconstruction and reconstruction of a sociological legend," British Journal of Sociology 47, no. 4 (December 1996): 627-642.
18. For example, Heilbroner, "Rescuing Veblen from Valhalla: deconstruction and reconstruction of a sociological legend," British Journal of Sociology 47, no. 4 (1996): 627-642., op. cit.;
19. David Riesman, Thorstein Veblen. A Critical Interpretation (NY: Scribner's, 1953);
20. and John P. Diggins, The Bard of Savagery. Thorstein Veblen and Modern Social Theory (NY: The Seabury Press, 1978).
21. Elizabeth and Henry Jorgensen, Thorstein Veblen: Victorian Firebrand (Armonk, NY & London: M. E. Sharpe, 1999).
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27. J. R. Christianson, "Thorstein Veblen: Ethnic Roots and Social Criticism of a 'Folk Savant'," Norwegian-American Studies 34 (1995): 3-22.
28. J. R. Christianson, "Thorstein Veblen: Ethnic Roots and Social Criticism of a 'Folk Savant'," Norwegian-American Studies, ibid., pp. 3, 11.
29. J. R. Christianson, "Thorstein Veblen: Ethnic Roots and Social Criticism of a 'Folk Savant'," Norwegian-American Studies, ibid., p. 15.
30. J. R. Christianson, "Thorstein Veblen: Ethnic Roots and Social Criticism of a 'Folk Savant'," Norwegian-American Studies, ibid. p. 16.
31. J. R. Christianson, "Thorstein Veblen: Ethnic Roots and Social Criticism of a 'Folk Savant'," Norwegian-American Studies, ibid.
32. See Peter J. Rosendahl, Han Ola og han Per: A Norwegian-American Comic Strip. Edited by Joan N. Buckley and Einar Haugen (Northfield, MN, 1984);
33. Peter J. Rosendahl, More han Ola og han Per: A Norwegian-American Comic Strip. Edited by Joan N. Buckley and Einar Haugen (Iowa City, IA, 1988).
34. Peter J. Rosendahl, More han Ola og han Per: A Norwegian-American Comic Strip., ibid., pp. 16-17.
35. Melton family Christmas letter, Edina, MN, 1998.
36. Martha White Paas to Russell and Sylvia Bartley, Department of Economics, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 15 December 1998.
37. T. B. Veblen to Miss Sadie Hardy, Chicago, 28 October 1895, p. 4. Miscellaneous Archives Collections: Thorstein B. Veblen Papers, Box "V," folder 1. Department of Special Collections, The Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago. HEREAFTER CITED AS: Veblen Papers, Regenstein Library.
38. Thorstein Veblen, The Higher Learning in America. A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men (NY: Huebsch, 1918), p. 5.
39. Thorstein Veblen, The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts (NY: Macmillan, 1914; with a new introduction by Murray G. Murphey, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1989), p. 87.
40. Ernest Sutherland Bates, "Thorstein Veblen," Scribner's Magazine 94 (July-December, 1933): 356. The reference is to Joseph's interpretation of Pharaoh's dreams first of seven lean cows devouring seven fat cows, then of seven thin ears of corn devouring seven full ears, as God's warning that Egypt would experience seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine (Genesis 41). As a metaphor for Veblen's seven-year retirement, Bates' biblical reference applies only imperfectly, for, unlike Pharaoh, Veblen used his seven lean years to prepare for the future and had not prepared for the "famine" at hand. Be that as it may, there is an elusive biblical quality to this period of Veblen's life, lived aesthetically in pursuit of enlightenment from deep within the Christian tradition. Our thanks to Professor James A. Brundage, Department of History, University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS), and to Rabbi Margaret Holub of the Mendocino Coast Jewish Community (Caspar, CA), for identifying the Old Testament source of this reference.
41. See, for example, T. B. Veblen to Miss Sadie Hardy, Chicago, 23 January 1896, p. 9. Veblen Papers (folder 1), Regenstein Library.
42. Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers, p. 218.
43. Andrew Veblen to Joseph Dorfman, San Diego, 18 July 1925, p. 1. Box 7, Andrew A. Veblen Papers, Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, MN). HEREAFTER CITED AS: Andrew Veblen Papers, MHS.
44. Bates, The Worldly Philosophers, loc. cit., p. 356.
45. Dorfman, The Worldly Philosophers, op. cit., p. 55.
46. T. B. Veblen to J. Franklin Jameson, New Haven, 16 May 1883. In Dorfman, The Worldly Philosophers, op. cit., p. 545.
47. Andrew Veblen to Joseph Dorfman, Los Angeles, 29 November 1929. Box 7, Andrew Veblen Papers, MHS.
48. Andrew Veblen to Joseph Dorfman, San Diego, 11 January 1928, p. 1. Box 7, Andrew Veblen Papers, MHS.
49. Franz Boas, "The Central Eskimo." In J. W. Powell, Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'8S (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888), p. 579. Washington Island Library of Thorstein B. Veblen, Carleton College Archives, Northfield, MN. HEREAFTER CITED AS: Veblen Library, CCA.
50. Robert Francis Harper, The Code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon, about 2250 B.C. (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1904), p. 53. Veblen Library, CCA.
51. For details of Ellen's condition and Thorstein's actions to compensate, see Bartley and Bartley, "In Search of Thorstein Veblen," The Code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon, about 2250 B.C., loc. cit., pp. 136-166.
52. For details on the purchase of the Menlo Park property, see the following correspondence in Carleton College's Thorstein B. Veblen Collection: Ellen R. Veblen to T. B. Veblen, Halcyon, CA, 18 June 1923, Box 1, folder 14; T. B. Veblen to Ellen R. Veblen, Detroit Harbor, WI, 21 August and 10 September 1923, Box 1, folder 1. Veblen did purchase a small piece of property on La Honda Ridge, west of the Stanford University campus, on which he erected a rustic shelter, as well as a 15-acre lot on Washington Island in Wisconsin, where he built a two-room cabin and separate study, but none of these structures could be considered a "house" in the Hammurabian sense.
53. Clyde and Dwelle, eds.. History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, vol. 2, p. 166.
54. Keith L. Bryant, Jr., "William B. Strong (May 16,1837 - August 3,1914)." In Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography. Railroads in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Robert L. Frey (NY & Oxford: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1988), p. 384.
55. Dorfman, "William B. Strong (May 16,1837 - August 3,1914)." In Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography. Railroads in the Nineteenth Century., op. cit., p. 57.
56. Andrew Veblen to Joseph Dorfman, East San Diego, 17 February 1926, p. 5; 1 October 1926, p. 2. Box 7, Andrew Veblen Papers, MHS.
57. Andrew Veblen, Diary Notes for 1885-1886. Box 7, Andrew Veblen Papers, MHS.
58. ibid.
59. Andrew Veblen to Joseph Dorfman, Los Angeles, 9 November 1929. Box 7, Andrew Veblen Papers, MHS.
60. Andrew Veblen to Joseph Dorfman, Los Angeles, 29 November 1929. Box 7; Andrew Veblen, Excelsior Diary for 1889. Box 4, Andrew Veblen Papers, MHS.
61. Andrew Veblen, Excelsior Diary for 1889. Box 4, Andrew Veblen Papers, MHS.
62. Andrew Veblen, Excelsior Diary for 1890. Box 4, Andrew Veblen Papers, MHS;
63. Christianson, William B. Strong (May 16,1837 - August 3,1914),In Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography. Railroads in the Nineteenth Century, loc. cit., p. 14;
64. Dorfman, William B. Strong (May 16,1837 - August 3,1914),In Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography. Railroads in the Nineteenth Century,op. cit., p. 78.
65. Andrew Veblen, Excelsior Diary for 1890, loc. cit.
66. Andrew Veblen to Joseph Dorfman, San Diego, 3 May 1925, pp. 1-2. Box 7, Andrew Veblen Papers, MHS.
67. J. E. Veblen to Joseph Dorfman, [early 1929], p. 2. Copy. Box 64, Joseph Dorfman Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University (New York, NY). HEREAFTER CITED AS: Dorfman Papers.
68. Andrew Veblen, Excelsior Diary for 1889, loc. cit.
69. Andrew Veblen to Joseph Dorfman, San Diego, 3 May 1925, Andrew Veblen, Excelsior Diary for 1889, loc. cit., p. 2.
70. Their letters from this period appear not to have survived but they are noted in Andrew's daybooks. We speculate on their content from context, which remains, of course, only speculation. We do note a pattern, however, in the frequency of letters exchanged between the two brothers, which increases noticeably on those occasions when Thorstein confronts academic problems for which Andrew can be of assistance and decreases thereafter.
71. Dorfman, Excelsior Diary for 1889, op. cit., p. 66.
72. Dorfman, Excelsior Diary for 1889, ibid., p. 77. Dorfman suggests that Strong's opposition to Veblen stemmed from the latter's agnosticism. However, we find that surmise less persuasive than Veblen's violation of tribal custom by spurning his in-laws' offer of employment with the Santa Fe. Admittedly, we skate here on the thin ice of speculation, but not as thin, we think, as Dorfman's.
73. Dorfman, Excelsior Diary for 1889, ibid., p. 67.
74. Clyde and Dwelle, eds., Excelsior Diary for 1889, op. cit., vol 1, p. 209
75. & Dorfman, Excelsior Diary for 1889, vol 2, p. 166; Abstract of Title No. 5743, Mitchell County, IA (6 September 1960), provided by the farm's current owner, Gene Wagner (114 S. Broad Street, Stacyville, IA);
76. Atlas of Mitchell County, Iowa (Chicago: Anderson Publishing Company, circa 1900).
77. J. E. Veblen to Joseph Dorfman, [circa early 1929], pp. 2, 3; Dorfman, Atlas of Mitchell County, Iowa, op. cit., p. 66.
78. Andrew Veblen, Excelsior Diary for 1888. Box 4, Andrew Veblen Papers, MHS.
79. Dorfman, Excelsior Diary for 1888, op. cit., p. 67.
80. Dorfman, Excelsior Diary for 1888, ibid., p. 66.
81. Osage News (12 April 1888): 5.
82. Clyde and Dwelle, eds., Osage News, op. cit., vol. 2, p. 167.
83. Harriet Rolfe Dagg to Joseph Dorfman, Chicago, 5 March 1933. Box 63, Dorfman Papers.
84. Cletus and Beverley Hatten, Stacyville, 24 June 1996, interview. The Haltens are the current owners of that portion of the Rolfe town property that included the home site.
85. Clyde and Dwelle, eds., Osage News, op. cit., vol. 2, p. 166.
86. Andrew Veblen to Joseph Dorfman, Los Angeles, 8 February 1932, p. 4. Box 7, Andrew Veblen Papers, MHS.
87. Abstract of Title No. 5743, Mitchell County, IA (6 September 1960).
88. Katie Jones, "Cicadas roost; no buzz-off yet," Columbia Missourian (Tuesday, 2 June 1998): 1A & 8A.
89. "Viagra inflames equality debate," The Des Moines Register (Monday, 1 June 1998): 1A.
90. "Scientist: Pakistan can make nuclear weapons within days," The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA, Monday, 1 June 1998): 3A.
91. Paul N. Edwards, The Closed World. Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (Cambridge, MA & London, England: MIT Press, 1997), pp. 45-46.
92. Dorfman, The Closed World. Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, op. cit., p. 305.
93. Diggins, The Closed World. Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, op. cit., p. 38;
94. Riesman, The Closed World. Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, op. cit., p. 24.
95. Diggins, The Closed World. Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, op. cit., p. 38.
96. Stuart Updegraff to Joseph Dorfman, [Casper, WY], 26 September 1935, p. 2. Box 72, Dorfman Papers.
97. Updegraff to Dorfman, Casper, WY, 30 September 1935, p. 7. Box 72, Dorfman Papers. Also, personal inspection of the house.
98. Updegraff to Dorfman, 26 September 1935, Diggins, The Closed World. Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, loc. cit., pp. 4-5.
99. Diggins, The Closed World. Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, ibid., p. 9.
100. See floor diagrams drawn by Updegraff, Diggins, The Closed World. Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, , loc. cit.
101. Updegraff to Dorfman, 26 September 1935, Diggins, The Closed World. Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, loc. cit., pp. 16-17.
102. Diggins, The Closed World. Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, op. cit., pp. 37-38.
103. Dorfman, The Closed World. Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, op. cit., p. 306.
104. Dorfman, The Closed World. Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, ibid.
105. Thorstein Veblen, Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times. The Case of America (NY: Huebsch, 1923), pp. 142ff.
106. Diggins, Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times. the Case of America, op. cit., p. 38.
107. For example: James and Vera Olson, The University of Missouri. An Illustrated History (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1988);
108. Frank F. Stephens, A History of the University of Missouri (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1962);
109. Jonas Viles, The University of Missouri. A Centennial History (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1939);
110. Charles H. Hedrick, "Thorstein Veblen Taught Here," Missouri Alumnus 53:6 (March, 1964): 16-17, 36;
111. D. R. Scott, "A Recollection of Veblen at Missouri," Missouri Alumnus 41:6 (February, 1953): 6, 12;
112. University of Missouri Bulletin, General Series, vols. 12-18 (1911-1917);
113. Standard Atlas ofBoone County, Missouri. Including a Plat Book of the Villages, Cities and Townships of the County (Chicago: Geo A. Ogle & Co., 1917);
114. V. V. Masterson, The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952).
115. The Savitar 21 (1915): 42. The uncropped original is preserved in the University of Missouri Archives, Lewis Hall, Columbia, MO.
116. Jacob Warshaw Papers (C36), Western Historical Manuscript Collection, Ellis Library, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
117. N.p.: privately printed and copyrighted by Mrs. Hazel Marie Warshaw, 1945. Warshaw Papers, folder 89.
118. Rick Tilman, Thorstein Veblen and His Critics, 1891-1963. Conservative, Liberal, and Radical Perspectives (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992), pp. 6-7.
119. Warshaw Papers, folder 89. Western Historical Manuscript Collection.
120. Reprinted from The Political Science Quarterly 34 (March, 1919),
121. in Thorstein Veblen, Essays in Our Changing Order. Edited by Leon Ardzrooni (NY: Viking, 1934), pp. 219231.
122. Veblen wrote this essay in early summer 1918 while in Washington, D.C. but before severing his ties to the University of Missouri. See Dorfman, Essays in Our Changing Order, op. cit., p. 424.
123. John S. Urie to Joseph Dorfman, Kansas City, MO, 24 April, 6 May and 20 May, 1934. Box 64, Dorfman Papers.
124. Becky Veblen Meyers, "Memoirs." Handwritten recollections recorded in a spiral notebook, 1989-1990. Thorstein B. Veblen Collection, Box 4 (Bradley-Veblen-Meyers Family Papers), folder 1. Carleton College Archives.
125. Herbert Joseph Davenport (1861-1931) Papers, Collection number 14-10-1166, one box. Rare and Manuscript Collections, Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. CITED HEREAFTER AS: Davenport Papers, Cornell. Our thanks to Patrick J. Stevens, curator of Cornell's Fiske Icelandic Collection, for reviewing the contents of this collection for us.
126. Telephone conversation with Edward Ardzrooni, Oakland, CA, 11 March 1999.
127. The precise chronology here remains cloudy. As Updegraff recalled events: "It was the arrival of little Johnnie Byrne D. while [the Davenports] were summering on Cape Cod in 1914, that finally ousted Thors and me from our comfortable home and perquisites." (Updegraff to Dorfman, 30 September 1935, p. 28.) But Updegraff was obviously mistaken, inasmuch as Veblen married Ann Bradley in the summer of 1914 and, when they returned to Columbia that fall, they rented a house of their own. Dorfman, for his part, states that Veblen wrote The Instinct of Workmanship "while living in the home of his colleague and former student, Walter W. Stewart" and that "by February 1913 [he] had completed the draft."
128. (Thorstein Veblen, Essays, Reviews, and Reports. Previously uncollected writings. Edited and with an introduction ["New Light on Veblen"] by Joseph Dorfman [Clifton, NJ: Kelley, 1973], pp. 100-101.
129. CITED HEREAFTER AS: Dorfman, "New Light on Veblen."
130. ) We now know, however, that Veblen began writing The Instinct of Workmanship as soon as he arrived in Columbia and that he completed the first four chapters in the fall and winter of 1910-1911;
131. chapters five, six, and the bulk of chapter seven in the summers of 1911 and 1912 while camping in Oregon and Colorado; and the book's remaining twenty-six pages back at the Davenports' in the winter of 1913. (Annotations in Veblen's own hand at the end of the Preface to his personal copy of The Instinct of Workmanship; photocopy from the files of John P. Diggins.)
132. Updegraff, in turn, recalled that Veblen was writing The Instinct of Workmanship when he first met him at the Davenports' in the fall of 1912. (Updegraff to Dorfman, 30 September 1935, p. 29.) Whatever writing on the manuscript Stewart may have observed would have been revisions of an already completed draft, most likely in the spring of 1914. Stewart was awed, Dorfman tells us, by the fact "that Veblen had such a systematic command of his material that he sat down and wrote steadily without consulting any literature."
133. (Dorfman, "New Light on Veblen," p. 100.)
134. Updegraff to Dorfman, 26 September 1935, pp. 8-9.
135. Columbia City Directory, 1915 (Quincy, IL: R. E. Hackman, 1914).
136. D. R. Scott, "A Recollection of Veblen at Missouri," Missouri Alumnus 41:6 (February, 1953): 6.
137. Charles H. Hedrick, "Thorstein Veblen Taught Here," Missouri Alumnus 53:6 (March, 1964): 16.
138. Updegraff to Dorfman, 30 September 1935, p. 28.
139. Warshaw, Recollections of Thorstein Veblen (1945), pp. 3-6.
140. Warshaw, Recollections of Thorstein Veblen, ibid., p. 3.
141. Warshaw, Recollections of Thorstein Veblen, ibid., pp. 7-8.
142. Warshaw, "A Few Notes to Dorfman's Veblen," p. 8.
143. Warshaw, "A Few Notes to Dorfman's Veblen,", ibid., pp. 1-2.
144. Warshaw, "Veblen" (two-page insert to "A Few Notes"), p. 2a.
145. Veblen to Davenport, Stanford University, 14 April 1909. Dorfman Papers, Box 2.
146. Dorfman, Thorstein Veblen and His America, p. 310.
147. Dorfman, Thorstein Veblen and His America, ibid., p. 300.
148. "Davenport, Herbert Joseph (August 10,1861 - June 16,1931)." Three-page biographical synopsis by M. Slade Kendrick. Davenport Papers, Cornell; "Herbert J. Davenport," biographical synopsis accompanying the Herbert J. Davenport Papers, Collection number 3768 (Miscellaneous Manuscripts), folder 1. Western Historical Manuscript Collection, Ellis Library, University of Missouri-Columbia. HEREAFTER COLLECTION CITED AS: Davenport Papers, WHMC.
149. H. J. Davenport to Herbert Putnam, Chicago, 9 January 1905. Dorfman Papers, Box 61.
150. Wesley C. Mitchell to Leon Ardzrooni, [NYC], 22 November 1923. Wesley Clair Mitchell Papers, Cataloged Correspondence. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University (New York, NY). COLLECTION HEREAFTER CITED AS: Mitchell Papers.
151. Transcribed interview with Becky Veblen Meyers by Paul Veblen, Sand Point, ID, 10 June 1993, p. 24. Thorstein B. Veblen Collection, Box 5, folder 1. Carleton College Archives.
152. Updegraff to Dorfman, 26 September 1935, pp. 10-11.
153. [H. J. Davenport], "The Economics of Fashion." Undated typescript of address delivered in Chicago in the 1890s, as determined by textual analysis. Davenport Papers, WHMC, folder 2.
154. Wesley C. Mitchell to Joseph Dorfman, Greensboro, VT, 10 August 1930, p. 1. Dorfman Papers, Box 1.
155. Isador Lubin, "Recollections of Veblen." In Thorstein Veblen. The Carleton College Veblen Seminars. Edited by Carlton C. Qualey (NY & London: Columbia University Press, 1968), p. 134.
156. Dorfman, Thorstein Veblen and His America, p. 354.
157. Updegraff to Dorfman, 26 September 1935, p. 19.
158. Becky [Veblen] Meyers to Jack Diggins, [San Francisco], 17 January 1982, p. 3. Copy courtesy of J. P. Diggins.
159. Transcribed interview with Becky Veblen Meyers by Russell and Sylvia [Yoneda] Bartley, Sand Point, ID, 27 August 1993, p. 13. Copy in the Thorstein B. Veblen Collection, Box 5, folder 1. Carleton College Archives.
160. John S. Urie to Joseph Dorfman, Kansas City, MO, 6 May 1934, p. 1. Dorfman Papers, Box 64; Becky Veblen Meyers, autobiographical notes handwritten in spiral composition book, 1979-1983, p. 78. Thorstein B. Veblen Collection, Box 4, folder 1. Carleton College Archives. HEREAFTER CITED AS: Meyers, autobiography.
161. Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norske Folke- og Huldre-Eventyr I Udualg, 4 vols in one. Illustrated. Kristiania & Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1910.
162. Meyers, autobiography, pp. 77-78.
163. Updegraff to Dorfman, 30 September 1935, p. 28.
164. Meyers, autobiography, ibid., p. 29.
165. Thomas Dillingham, "Memorial Day show glorifies militarism," Columbia Missourian (Friday, 5 June 1998): 4A.
166. "Veblen is Praised by New York Editor," The Evening Missourian (Thursday, 15 November 1917): 1A.
167. "Economic Genius," Columbia Missourian (26 March 1936). Clipping from University of Missouri Archives, Collection number 0/49/2.
168. "A Revolutionary of the Classroom Stirs the Currents of Modern America," The Kansas City Star (Saturday, 13 April 1935). Clipping from University of Missouri Archives, Collection number 0/49/2.
169. Webster Schott, "Controversial Economist of 1920's, Thorstein Veblen, in Re-Examination," The Kansas City Star (21 December 1953). Clipping from University of Missouri Archives, Collection number 0/49/2.
170. Maude Radford Warren to Joseph Dorfman, [date?]. Dorfman Papers, Box 64. This is the only known instance of Veblen commenting on his private life with anyone other than his most trusted confidants, e.g., Davenport, Wesley Mitchell, Sadie Hardy Gregory, perhaps Isador Lubin and Leon Ardzrooni. He was decidedly not given, in Updegraff's words, "to babbling comment on his private affairs." (Updegraff to Dorfman, 30 September 1935, p. 30.) Maude Warren's mention of Veblen's bout with double pneumonia refers to the winter of 1909-10 when Veblen fell ill while visiting Babe and her daughters near Grangeville, Idaho, recovering only through Babe's heroic efforts. Ms. Warren could only have learned of this episode from Veblen himself or one of the Davenports, inasmuch as details-or even the fact-of that fateful sojourn were not generally known even among Veblen's acquaintances. For a firsthand account,
171. see Meyers, autobiography, pp. 29-32.
172. Meyers, autobiography, pp. 75-77.
173. For an instructive example of the cultural outsider who contributes meaningfully to the preservation of an ethnic tradition, see Elizabeth Jaderborg, '"Selma Lind' and Lindsborg," The Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly (April 1980): 129-133.
174. Emory Kempton Lindquist, Smoky Valley People. A History ofLindsborg, Kansas (Lindsborg, KS: Bethany College, 1953), p. 169.
175. Enumeration books for 1914 and 1925 (Lindsborg, KS). McPherson County Area Research Library and Archives; Standard Atlas of McPherson County, Kansas (Chicago: Geo. A. Ogle & Co., 1921);
176. Ruth Billdt, Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas.
177. Translation of Dr. Alfred Bergin's Lindsborg, Bidrag Till Svenskarnas och Den Lutherska Kyrkans Historia I Smoky Hill River Dalen [1909]
178. (Lindsborg, KS: Lindsborg News-Record, 1965), p. 153;
179. and Lindquist, Lindsborg News-Record, op. cit., p. 214.
180. Billdt, Lindsborg News-Record, op. cit., p. 153;
181. Lindquist, Lindsborg News-Record, op. cit., p. 214.
182. Lindquist, Lindsborg News-Record, op. cit., pp. 158-168;
183. Standard Atlas of McPherson County, pp. 12-13.
184. Jorgensen, Standard Atlas of McPherson County, op. cit., pp. 142-143.
185. Matthew Paxton to Joseph Dorfman, Kansas City, MO, 19 December 1932. Dorfman Papers, Box 63.
186. Missouri Valley Official Railway Guide and Hotel Directory 13:1 (January 1914);
187. Wabash Railroad Timetable (1913).
188. O. E. Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth. A Saga of the Prairie. Translated from the Norwegian by Lincoln Colcord and the author (NY: Harper Perennial, 1991).
189. Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert. The American West and Its Disappearing Water (NY, London, etc.: Penguin, 1988), pp. 10-11.
190. Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert. The American West and Its Disappearing Water, ibid., p. 468.
191. Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert. The American West and Its Disappearing Water, ibid., p. 455.
192. Robert Unruh, "Suspects in killing of officer elude hundreds of lawmen," The Wichita Eagle (Saturday, 6 June 1998): 1A, 4A.
193. Meyers, autobiography, pp. 69-74.
194. Veblen Collection, Box 3, folder 19. Carleton College Archives.
195. Meyers, autobiography, ibid.
196. Dorfman, Thorstein Veblen and His America, pp. 305-306.
197. State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Madison, WI). Photo number Whi (x3)37675. This photograph was recovered from Veblen's Washington Island, WI property after his death, while the other surviving Fort Garland images apparently traveled with him to California when he left the Island for the last time and were subsequently donated to the Carleton College Archives by his stepdaughter, Becky Veblen Meyers.
198. "Report: Defectors gassed. Nixon OK'd use of nerve agent," The Denver Post (Monday, 8 June 1998): 1A & 6A.
199. Kit Miniclier, "Massive manhunt scaled way back," The Denver Post (Monday, 8 June 1998): 1A & 12A.
200. th birthday bash," The Denver Post (Monday, 8 June 1998): 3B. The sociology of Harley bikers is such that among their number would appear to be some members of the monied élites (Veblen's "leisure class"), who, by donning leather and riding with the mythically outlaw pack, satiate unresolved psychological needs peculiar to their class identity.
201. Richard N. Ellis and Duane A. Smith, Colorado. A History in Photographs (Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1991);
202. Leland Feitz, comp., with Peggy Newcomb Barr, Colorado's San Luis Valley. A Pictorial History (Colorado Springs, CO: Little London Press, 1997);
203. and Olibama Lopez-Tuschar, The People of El Volle. A History of the Spanish Colonials in the San Luis Valley (Pueblo, CO: El Escritorio, 1997).
204. "Kansas elevator blast kills two," The Denver Post (Tuesday, 9 June 1998): 2A.
205. Paul Richter, "Probe of alleged use of nerve gas ordered," The Denver Post (Tuesday, 9 June 1998): 14A.
206. Trinchera Irrigation District Board of Directors, Record of Minutes, vol. 3 (7 June 1913);
207. Record of Minutes, vol. 4 (1 June and 6 July 1914). Trinchera Irrigation Company (Bianca, CO). HEREAFTER CITED AS: TIC;
208. F. A. McKinney, San Luis Valley Directory, 1913-1914 (Denver & La Junta, CO: McKinney, 1913), p. 152.
209. Harvey C. Skoglund, "A History of San Luis Valley, Colorado." M.A. thesis, Colorado State College of Education (Greeley, CO), 1941.
210. Meyers, autobiography, p. 70.
211. Carr, Meyers, autobiography, op. cit., p. 27.
212. Donald B. Robertson, Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History. Vol. II: The Mountain States (Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1991). Alternatively, they could have traveled from Chicago to Denver via the Union Pacific Railroad, transferring to the D&RG in Denver. This routing was not as convenient, however, nor was it the one most familiar to Veblen.
213. McKinney, Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History. Vol. II: the Mountain States, op. cit., p. 160.
214. De va Dean, Bianca, 9 June 1998.
215. McKinney, Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History. Vol. II: the Mountain States, op. cit., p. 160.
216. Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History. Vol. II: the Mountain States, ibid.;
217. F. A. Patterson, Cultural Resources Consultant, "Historic Sites Survey: Costilla County" (12 July 1977). TIC.
218. McKinney, Historic Sites Survey: Costilla County, op. cit., p. 151.
219. Board of Directors, Trinchera Irrigation District, Record of Minutes, Vol. 1 (1911), p. 12,
220. and Record of Minutes, Vol. 3 (1913), pp. 398-399. TIC;
221. H. L. Morrison, Consulting Engineer, Report on the Trinchera Irrigation District, Costilla County, Colorado, together with Analysis of Water Priorities for Trinchera, Sangre de Cristo & Ute Creeks (Monte Vista, CO, 5 February 1921), pp. 5-7, 38-40. TIC.
222. Deva Dean, 9 June 1998.
223. Veblen Collection, Box 3, folder 24, Carleton College Archives.
224. Handwritten note to Jack Diggins on Xerox copy of the last page of the preface to Veblen's personal copy of The Instinct of Workmanship, on which Veblen had noted which parts of the book had been written where, with the corresponding dates. Copy courtesy of John Patrick Diggins, New York, NY.
225. Taos Valley News (14 June 1913): 1.
226. Taos Valley News (28 June 1913): 1.
227. Taos Valley News (21 June 1913): 1.
228. Quoted by Duane A. Smith, Mesa Verde National Park. Shadows of the Centuries (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1988), p. 99.
229. The Denver Post (Thursday, 11 June 1998):
230. Bruce Finley, "War news divides old allies. Immigrants agonize as Ethiopia explodes," pp. 1 & 13A;
231. Steve Kloehn, "Baptists target leaders' morals," p. 5A;
232. Joan Biskupic, "Wis. court Oks church schools in voucher plan," p. 4A.
233. Curt Anderson, "Government posts a logging loss," The Denver Post (Thursday, 11 June 1998): 16A.
234. Thorstein Veblen, Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times. The Case of America (NY: Huebsch, 1923), pp. 185-189.
235. Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of Business Enterprise (NY: Scribner's, 1904), pp. 268-269.
236. Peggy Lowe and Electa Draper, "Arid area proves fertile soil for anti-government feeling," The Denver Post (Thursday, 11 June 1998): 6-7B.
237. Jason Blevins, "CU novelist's lay of the 'Land' eerily similar to Cortez search," The Denver Post (Thursday, 11 June 1998): 7B.
238. Robert W. Delaney, The Coming of DuRanGo's Little Train (Durango, CO: privately printed, 1973).
239. Smith, The Coming of DuRanGo's Little Train, op. cit., pp. 99-100.
240. Updegraff to Dorfman, 26 September 1935, p. 16.
241. Jesse Walter Fewkes, Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park. Spruce-Tree House. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 41 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909);
242. Gustaf Nordenskiold, The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde (Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt, 1893).
243. Smith, The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde, op. cit., pp. 27-32.
244. Smith, The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde, ibid., pp. 71-72.
245. Fern D. Ellis, Come Back to My Valley. Historical Remembrances of Mancos, Colorado (Cortez, CO: Cortez Printers, 1976);
246. Ira S. Freeman, A History of Montezuma County (Boulder: Johnson Publishing, 1958).
247. Rex Burns, The Leaning Land. A Gabe Wager Mystery (NY: Walker, 1997), pp. 146-147.
248. "Bay/State in Brief: Costliest office space," Santa Rosa Press Democrat (Sunday, 28 June 1998): B4.