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The Patron Dinosaur of Exams

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Warner Photo, Life-sized Tyrannosaurus Rex, The Branding Iron, 1964

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Photo by Warner, Samuel H. Knight, The Branding Iron, 1964

Photo by Mark Heinz, Student throwing pinecone at dinosaur statue, Cowboy State Daily, 2024

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Boym, Svetlana. “Nostalgia and Its Discontents.” The Future of Nostalgia, New York, 2007, pp. 7–18.
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Connerton, Paul. “Seven types of forgetting.” Memory Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 2008, pp. 59–71, https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698007083889.

Goggins, Sydney. “Reshaping public memory inthe 1619 project: Rhetorical interventions against selective forgetting.” Museums & Social Issues, vol. 14, no. 1–2, 3 July 2019, pp. 60–73, https://doi.org/10.1080/15596893.2019.1992832.

Heinz, Mark. “Tossing Pinecones Into Mouth Of Giant T. Rex A 60-Year UW Tradition.” Cowboy State Daily, 31 Mar. 2024.
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Hoffman, L. “Rexie Charm at Risk of Extinction.” The Branding Iron, 6 Dec. 2021.
 
“Knight Unveils Tyrannosaurus Model.” The Branding Iron, 17 Apr. 1964, pp. 3.

Rice, Jennifer H., et al. “Memory and lost communities: Strange methods for studying place.” Review of Communication, vol. 20, no. 2, 1 Apr. 2020, pp. 144–151, https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2020.1737193.

“The Franklin Statue: Wyoming’s Bronze Founding Father and a Touch of Controversy.” American Heritage Center (AHC) , 24 July 2025, ahcwyo.org/2025/07/28/the-franklin-statue-wyomings-bronze-founding-father-and-a-touch-of-controversy/.

​University of Wyoming American Heritage Center Archives. Samuel H. Knight. Box 33, Folder 56.

University of Wyoming American Heritage Center Archives. Samuel H. Knight. Box 33, Folder 57.

“UW’s American Heritage Center Wants Wyomingites’ Coronavirus Stories.” UW’s American Heritage Center Wants Wyomingites’ Coronavirus Stories, 10 Sept. 2020, www.uwyo.edu/news/2020/09/uws-american-heritage-center-wants-wyomingites-coronavirus-stories.html.
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“UW’s Dinosaur-Major Project for Samuel Knight.” The Branding Iron, 21 July 1967, pp. 6.

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