Charles Mutschler

Charles V. Mutschler (May 28, 1955 – March 10, 2019) was an archivist and Interim Dean of Eastern Washington University Libraries. He served as Assistant Archivist and Acting University Archivist and was hired as University Archivist in 2001. He became Interim Dean in 2018.

In addition to his work at EWU, he was an avid railroad and model railroad enthusiast, speaking locally on railroad history topics and authoring publications about railroad history. He attended middle school in Colorado. He had lived in Cheney, Washington since 1969.

Publications Spokane’s Street Railways: An Illustrated History (1987) Wired for Success: The Butte Anaconda & Pacific Railway (2002) A Doctor Among the Oglala Sioux: The Letters of Robert H. Ruby, 1953–1954 (co-edited with Cary C. Collins) (2010)