Marian T. Place

Marian Whitinger Templeton was born in 1910 in Gary, Indiana to Clarence Ray and Lillian R. Templeton. In 1931, she earned a B.S. from the University of Minnesota, followed in 1935 with a B.A. from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Templeton subsequently earned her Masters of Library Science at the University of Minnesota. Shortly after completing her education, Templeton met Howard Thirloway Place while working for the Glasgow Courier and married him in 1936 in Glasgow, Montana.{{Cite web|title=Collection 95 - Marian T. Place Papers, 1951-1963 - MSU Library {{!}} Montana State University|url=http://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/finding-aids/0095.html?_ga=2.162570556.1401671305.1645636653-1304988945.1579812652|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.lib.montana.edu}} They went on to have two children, David and Nancy. Place and her husband moved to Portland, Oregon in 1962 where she resided until her death in 2006.{{Cite web|title=Marian T. Place Papers 1931-1991 (bulk 1941-1991) Place, (Marian T.)|url=http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/asu/place.xml|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.azarchivesonline.org}}

Place published works under her own name and two pseudonyms, Dale White and R.D. Whitinger. When writing about hunting, fishing, the Forest Service, and other science and nature related topics, Place published under Dale White, while R.D. Whitinger was used only briefly when Place dabbled with writing Westerns. She was the recipient of several awards under one of her pseudonyms and her own name, including the Mark Twain Award.{{Cite web|title=Marian T. Place Papers 1951-1963 - Archives West|url=https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv41906|access-date=2022-02-24|website=archiveswest.orbiscascade.org}} Place was a prolific writer, publishing over 40 children's books in addition to magazine articles for Montana: The Magazine of Western History, and books under her pseudonyms.

The following list contains some of Place's writing, both magazine articles and books.

Published under Marian T. Place

• "The Kid's Corral." Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Autumn 1956, 1957.{{Cite web|title=Montana The Magazine of Western History|url=https://mhs.mt.gov/pubs/Magazines/|access-date=2022-02-24|website=mhs.mt.gov}}
• "The Endless Debate Rages: Historical Fictionalizing Versus Fact." Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Spring 1955.
• The Boy Who Saw Bigfoot
• The Witch Who Saved Halloween
• On the Track of Bigfoot
• Nobody Meets Bigfoot
• Bigfoot All Over the Country
• Cariboo Gold: The Story of the British Columbia Gold Rush
• The Resident Witch
• Mount St. Helen's: A Sleeping Volcano Awakes
• The First Astrowitches
• Marcus and Narcissa Whitman: Oregon Pioneers{{Cite web|last=ThriftBooks|title=Marian T. Place Books {{!}} List of books by author Marian T. Place|url=https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/marian-t-place/460490/|access-date=2022-02-24|website=ThriftBooks|language=en}}
• The Copper Kings of Montana
• Westward on the Oregon Trail
• Gold Down Under
• Mountain Man
• Comanches and Other Indians of Texas
• The Frontiersman: The True Story of Billy Dixon
• American Cattle Trails East and West
• The Yukon{{Cite web|title=Books by Marian T. Place (Author of The Resident Witch)|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/507610.Marian_T_Place|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.goodreads.com}}Wikipedia:SPS

Published under Dale White

• The Singing Boones
• Is Something Up There?
• Young Deputy Smith
• Hold Back the Hunter
• The Johnny Cake McNe
• Vigilantes, Ride!
• Steamboat Up the Missouri
• Gifford Pinchot, The Man Who Saved Forests
• Bat Masterson
• Thunder in his Mo{{Cite web|title=Dale White Books|url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/21067096-thunder-in-his-mo|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.goodreads.com}}Wikipedia:SPS

Published under R.D. Whitinger

• High Trail{{Cite book|last=Whitinger|first=R. D.|url=https://www.amazon.com/High-Trail-R-D-Whitinger/dp/B002BHJQMI|title=High Trail|date=1958-01-01|publisher=Pyramid Books}}
• Bitterroot Basin{{Cite web|title=Bitterroot Basin - AbeBooks|url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/bitterroot-basin/|access-date=2022-02-24|website=www.abebooks.co.uk|language=en-GB}}

Under the pseudonym Dale White, Place was awarded the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America two times. The first was for Steamboat Up the Missouri in 1958 and the second was for Hold Back the Hunter in 1959.

Under her own name, Place received the Mark Twain Award for The Boy Who Saw Bigfoot in 1982. She also was awarded the Garden State's Children Book Award in 1977 for On the Track of Bigfoot. Place was nominated for the California Young Reader Medal for The Boy Who Saw Bigfoot in 1982–1983.

There are several archival collections of Marian T. Place's work, including at Montana State University's Merril G. Burlingame Archives and Special Collections, at the Arizona State University Archives, and at the University of Wyoming.

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• [http://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/finding-aids/0095.html?_ga=2.162570556.1401671305.1645636653-1304988945.1579812652 Collection 095, Marian T. Place Papers, 1951-1963]. Held at Montana State University's [https://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/ Archives and Special Collections].
• [http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/asu/place.xml Marian T. Place Papers, 1931-1991]. Held at Arizona State University Archives.
• [http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/search Arizona Archives Online.]
• Buckskins and Buffalo: The Story of the Yellowstone River. {{Cite book|last=Place|first=Marian T|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28205590|title=Marian T. Place manuscript|date=1964|language=English|oclc=28205590}} Manuscript held by the University of Wyoming, [http://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/ American Heritage Center.]
• [https://msu-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01TRAILS_ALMA71145590630003366&context=L&vid=01TRAILS_MSU&lang=en_US&search_scope=01TRAILS_MSU&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=everything&query=any,contains,marian%20t.%20place&sortby=rank Mystery of the Wild Horse Trap.] Held at Montana State University's [https://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/ Archives and Special Collections.]

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