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Huffaker may refer to: People *Clair Huffaker (1926–1990), American author of Western fiction * Carl B. Huffaker (1914–1995), American biologist and agricultural scientist Places * Huffaker, a district in Rome, Georgia * Huffaker, Illinois, a populated place in Sangamon County * Huffaker, Nevada, a former settlement in Washoe County * Huffaker, Utah, a populated place in Salt Lake County Salt Lake County is located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 1,185,238, making it the most populous county in Utah. Its county seat and largest city is Salt Lake City, the state capital. The coun ...
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Clair Huffaker
Clair Huffaker (September 26, 1926 – April 3, 1990) was an American screenwriter and author of westerns and other fiction, many of which were turned into films. Biography Born in Magna, Utah, Huffaker wrote of his childhood in ''One Time I Saw Morning Come Home''. He attended Princeton and Columbia universities and the Sorbonne in Paris. He served in the United States Navy in World War II and then studied in Europe before returning to America. After the war, he worked in Chicago as an assistant editor for ''Time'' before turning to fiction. Novels *''Badge for a Gunfighter'' (1957) *''Rider from Thunder Mountain'' (1957) *''Cowboy'' (1958) Novelization of the screenplay *''Flaming Lance'' (filmed as ''Flaming Star'') (1958) *''Posse from Hell'' (1958) *''Guns of Rio Conchos'' (1958) *''Badman'' (filmed as ''The War Wagon'') (1958) *''Seven Ways from Sundown'' (1959) *''Good Lord, You're Upside Down!'' (1963) *''Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian'' (filmed as ''Flap'' (1967) *' ...
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Carl Barton Huffaker
Carl Barton Huffaker (September 30, 1914 in Monticello, Kentucky – October 10, 1995 in Lafayette, California) was an American biologist, ecologist and agricultural entomologist. Huffaker graduated from the University of Tennessee (1938 B.S., 1939 M.S.) then gaining a PhD from Ohio State University in 1942. Huffaker was one of the first entomologists to study the use of DDT to control mosquito populations. After working as a medical entomologist in Colombia, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic he was recruited by Harry Scott Smith in 1946 to work as an assistant entomologist for the Division of Biological Control of the University of California. Huffaker's first assignment was the control of Klamath weed, particularly the use of ''Chrysolina quadrigemina''. He remained at Berkeley until his retirement in 1984. He published more than 200 scientific papers and edited and contributed to books "citation classics" in population ecology, biological control, and integrated pest managemen ...
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Rome, Georgia
Rome is the largest city in and the county seat of Floyd County, Georgia, United States. Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, it is the principal city of the Rome, Georgia metropolitan area, Rome, Georgia, metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Floyd County. At the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 37,713. It is the largest city in Northwest Georgia (U.S.), Northwest Georgia and the List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), 26th-largest city in the state. Rome was founded in 1834, after United States Congress, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, and the federal government committed to removing the Cherokee and other Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans from the southeastern United States, Southeast. It developed on former indigenous territory at the confluence of the Etowah River, Etowah and the Oostanaula River, Oostanaula rivers, which together form the Coosa River. Because of its ...
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Sangamon County, Illinois
Sangamon County is located in the center of the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, it had a population of 197,465. Its county seat and largest city is Springfield, Illinois, Springfield, the List of capitals in the United States, state capital. Sangamon County is included in the Springfield, IL Springfield metropolitan area, Illinois, Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Sangamon County was formed in 1821 out of Madison County, Illinois, Madison and Bond County, Illinois, Bond counties. The county was named for the Sangamon River, which runs through it. The origin of the name of the river is unknown; among several explanations is the theory that it comes from the Pottawatomie word ''Sain-guee-mon'' (pronounced "sang gä mun"), meaning "where there is plenty to eat." Published histories of neighboring Menard County (formed from Sangamon County) suggest that the name was first given to the river by the French explorers of the l ...
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Washoe County, Nevada
Washoe County () is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 486,492, making it Nevada's second-most populous county. Its county seat is Reno. Washoe County is included in the Reno, NV Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Washoe County was created on November 25, 1861, as one of the original nine counties of the Nevada Territory. It is named after the Washoe people who originally inhabited the area. It was consolidated with Roop County in 1864. Washoe City was the first county seat in 1861 and was replaced by Reno in 1871. In 1911, a small band of Shoshone and Bannock led by Mike Daggett killed four stockmen in Washoe County. A posse was formed, and on February 26, 1911, at the Battle of Kelley Creek, eight of Daggett's band were killed, along with one member of the posse, Ed Hogle. Three children and a woman who survived the battle were captured. The remains of some of the members of the band were repatriated from the Smithsonian Ins ...
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