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Eli Richard Shipp

(1864-1932)
Wyoming



frontispiece

E. Richard Shipp, Intermountain Folk: Songs of their Days and Ways
(Casper, Wyoming: Casper Stationery Co., 1922)

E. Richard Shipp was born on May 1, 1864, at Petersburg, Illinois. [Source: Clarence Stewart Peterson, Men of Wyoming: the national newspaper reference book of Wyoming containing photographs and biographies of over three hundred men residents 226 (Denver: Peterson, 1915)] [See also, Ichabod S.Bartlett, History of Wyoming 510 (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1918)(vol. 2)]

Shipp was a graduate of Georgetown Law School in 1895, and was a founder of Sigma Nu Phi, a legal fraternity. He obtained an LL.M. degree, and at one time was associated with the Washington, D.C. bar. He later took up residence in Casper, Wyoming, where he served as a prosecutor, and then as as justice on the Wyoming Supreme Court. [See: Eva Floy Wheeler, Wyoming Writers (The Douglas Enterprise Co., 1940)]

Poetry

E. Richard Shipp, Intermountain Folk: Songs of their Days and Ways
(Casper, Wyoming: Casper Stationery Co., 1922) [online text]

_____________, Rangeland Melodies (Casper, Wyoming: Casper Stationery Co., 1923)

_____________, Pioneer Blood (Casper, Wyoming: Oil City Printers, 1926)

[The March, 1924 issue of Overland Monthly contains a poem by Shipp
titled "Crossing the Desert."][Library of James R. Elkins]

Legal Texts

E. Richard Shipp & John B. Daish, A Selection of Cases illustrating Common Law Pleading (Chicago: Callaghan, 1903)