Will C. Minor
A keen and patient observer of wildlife, and a careful writer, Will C. Minor sold his first story to Boys Life Magazine when he was sixteen. Since then he has had almost a hundred natural history articles accepted by magazines ranging all the way from small Sunday School weeklies to such quality slicks as American Forest, Desert Magazine, and Nature.
Photo by Kent Thompkins
Will C. Minor’s biography from the back of previous editions:
For the past dozen years, except for a hitch in the Army, Will C. Minor, the author of Footprints in the Trail, has worked with sheep on the Colorado Ranches and in the grasslands high up in the Colorado Rockies.
“This work,” says he, “allows me more opportunity for observing wildlife and studying natural history than any other manner of making a living I have yet discovered.”
Usually he goes about with a notebook in his pocket and two cameras strapped to his belt. “In fact,” says he, “I would not feel fully dressed without at least one camera strapped on.”
Of the thousands of nature photoraphs he has made, many have been published in rotogravure sections of magazines and newspapers of national circulation.
A keen and patient observer of wildlife, and a careful writer, he sold his first story to Boys Life Magazine when he was sixteen. Since then he has had almost a hundred natural history articles accepted by magazines ranging all the way from small Sunday School weeklies to such quality slicks as American Forest, Desert Magazine, and Nature.
The collecting of butterflies is another of Mr. Minor’s interests, and, in his search through the Colorado mountains for specimens, he has discovered two species new to science, one of which, the Papilio indra minori, Cross, has been named for him.
Born on a farm in DeKalb County, Missouri, Minor was taken by his parents to Colorado when he was still too young to remember, and, though he has traveled and worked in most of the western states, Colorado has remained his home most of his forty-six years.
His present residence is at Fruita, Colorado. But if you dropped by to see him you most likely would not find him there. Most likely he would be gone off to those canyons and mountain ranges which he loves and writes about so well.
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