William Turrentine Jackson

W. Turrentine "Turpie" Jackson (1915, Ruston, Louisiana – May 28, 2000) was an American professor of history, specializing in Western U.S. history.

Biography Jackson grew up in El Paso, Texas. He graduated in 1935 with B.A. from Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso) and in 1940 with Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, where his thesis advisor was Walter Prescott Webb. He published extensively and served on the editorial boards of several academic journals. Three of his books won prizes.

As a consulting historian to the company for 20 years, he had 13 monographs and articles on the company’s history in the Western states published in scholarly journals. Taking on other projects for law firms, environmental consultants and government agencies, he became a partner in JRP Historical Consulting Services in Davis. He retired from the company in 1990. 1964 — Guggenheim Fellowship for the academic year 1964–1965 1979 pbk reprint with Maurice Frink and Agnes Wright Spring: 2016 ebook

as editor