Peggy Simson Curry
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Title
Peggy Simson Curry
Access Rights
The material in this collection may be reused so long as attribution is provided to its original source. Some writings and works may be subject to copyright restrictions depending on the publisher or owner of specific instances of the materials.
Date Created
Undated
Description
Photograph of Peggy Curry Simson (1911-1987). This collection includes copies of works by Peggy Simson Curry, correspondence between Mrs. Curry and her publishers and friends, newspapers and newspaper clippings, Wyoming and Casper College magazines and publications featuring her work, artwork for book covers, thank you cards, other various papers and documents, books, and photographs of Peggy Simson Curry and other family members. The collection is dated from 1923 to 1987, when Mrs. Peggy Simson Curry passed and much of her work was donated to Casper College's Western History Center by her husband, William S. Curry.
Born Peggy Anderson-Simson on December 30th, 1911 in Dunure, Ayrshire, Scotland, Peggy Simson Curry was a renowned Wyoming native writer, scholar, educator, and a loving wife and mother. She is most famous throughtout Colorado and Wyoming for being a historic poet, fiction writer, novelist, and an English teacher at Casper College for over 25 years. She grew up in the West roping and riding on a small ranch in Colorado, and then Wyoming. Her childhood growing up on a ranch inspired her to write incredible stories and she made an entire career out of writing unique characters into pictures of the west from early 1950 to 1987. Peggy’s crowning achievement, and what she’s known best for, is being named Wyoming’s First Poet Laureate in January 1980-1981 by Wyoming Governor Ed Herschler, who was a personal fan of Curry’s work in Wyoming. ( Source: "Peggy Simson Curry, Wyoming's First Poet Laureate" (2015). Lori Van Pelt. Wyohistory.org. Date accessed: July 15, 2022.)
Born Peggy Anderson-Simson on December 30th, 1911 in Dunure, Ayrshire, Scotland, Peggy Simson Curry was a renowned Wyoming native writer, scholar, educator, and a loving wife and mother. She is most famous throughtout Colorado and Wyoming for being a historic poet, fiction writer, novelist, and an English teacher at Casper College for over 25 years. She grew up in the West roping and riding on a small ranch in Colorado, and then Wyoming. Her childhood growing up on a ranch inspired her to write incredible stories and she made an entire career out of writing unique characters into pictures of the west from early 1950 to 1987. Peggy’s crowning achievement, and what she’s known best for, is being named Wyoming’s First Poet Laureate in January 1980-1981 by Wyoming Governor Ed Herschler, who was a personal fan of Curry’s work in Wyoming. ( Source: "Peggy Simson Curry, Wyoming's First Poet Laureate" (2015). Lori Van Pelt. Wyohistory.org. Date accessed: July 15, 2022.)
Type
Image
Creator
Peggy Curry Simson
Is Part Of
Peggy Simson Curry Papers, CCA 04.2007.01. Casper College Archives and Special Collections.
Identifier
CCA 04.2007.01_PeggySimsonCurry
Format
JPG
Publisher
Casper College Archives and Special Collections (Western History Center)
Original Format
Photographic print
Collection
Citation
Peggy Curry Simson, “Peggy Simson Curry,” Goodstein Foundation Library Western History Center Digital Collections, accessed January 23, 2025, https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/items/show/5665.