Urbanek, Mae Bobb

1903 - 1995

Niobrara County

Biographical and Professional Information

Althea Mae Robb was born September 10, 1903 in Edgewater, Colorado. She grew up on a homestead near Haynes, South Dakota. She attended and graduated from the School of Journalism at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. While there, she met and married her husband, Jerry Urbanek. In the early spring of 1931 Mae and her husband settled on a ranch north of Lusk, Wyoming. She was a dedicated rock hound, a member of the Wyoming Library, Archives, Museum and Historical Board, Wyoming Press Women, and Wyoming Federation of Garden Clubs. She died May 29, 1995.

Genres

Fiction

History

Nonfiction

Poetry

Travel

Wyoming Subjects

Titles

• A Prairie Girl Grows Up (1985). Casper, WY: Wyoming History Press. ISBN: (?).

• Ghost Trails of Wyoming (1978). Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Co. ISBN: (?).

• Chief Washakie of the Shoshones (1971). Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Co. ISBN: (?).

• Know Wyoming: A guide to its literature (1969). Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Co. ISBN: (?). Co-author Jerry Urbanek.

• Memoirs of Andrew McMaster (1969). Publisher City, State: Publisher Name. ISBN: (?). Co-author Andrew Nelson McMaster.

• Almost Up Devil's Tower: A tourist novel (1968). Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Co. ISBN: (?).

• Wyoming Place Names (1967). Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Co. ISBN: (?).

• Wyoming Wonderland (1964). Denver, CO: Sage Publishing. ISBN: (?).

• Songs of the Sage (1962). Denver, CO: Big Mountain Press. ISBN: (?).

• The Second Man (1962). Denver, CO: Sage Publishing. ISBN: (?).

• The Uncovered Wagon (1958). Denver, CO: Sage Publishing. ISBN: (?). Co-author Jerry Urbanek.

• High Lights of the Hills (1954). Lusk, WY: Lusk Herald. ISBN: (?). Illustrated by Elsie Christian.

• Wyoming Winds (1950). Lusk, WY: Lusk Herald. ISBN: (?). Illustrated by Norman Evans.

• Niobrara Breezes: A collection of poems (1946). Niobrara County, WY: Lusk Herald. ISBN: (?). Illustrated by Elsie Christian.

Links

Obituary

http://www.niobraracountylibrary.org/obituaries/?id=4018