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3 unusual facts about Vance T. Holliday


Vance T. Holliday

Research with B.B. Huckell was also carried out at several Folsom sites on the West Mesa area of the Albuquerque Basin.

:In Sonora, field work in collaboration with M.G.Sanchez (INAH) focused on a series of Clovis sites, most prominently an in-situ Clovis/Gomphothere kill site and an extensive camping area on the adjacent uplands.

During his time at Texas Tech University Holliday worked closely with Dr. Eileen Johnson of the Museum of Texas Tech University on the Lubbock Lake Project located in northwestern Texas.


Cyrus K. Holliday

He is portrayed in the 1940 movie "Santa Fe Trail" by Henry O'Neill as a promoter of commerce and development in the American West of his time.

Elias S. Holliday

Holliday was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1909).

J. S. Holliday

Holliday's 2nd wife, Belinda Vidor Jones, was daughter of director King Vidor.

Holliday wrote a masterly history of the California Gold Rush that capped three decades of painstaking research on the era.


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