Gibson, Richard

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DICK GIBSON is a geologist, historian, and former Study Leader for Smithsonian Journeys around the world. He was Education Director at the World Museum of Mining (2003-2005) and gives tours with Old Butte Historical Adventures (2006- ). Educated at Indiana University (and Indiana's Geologic Field Station in the Tobacco Root Mountains east of Butte), he is author of two books, History of the Earth: A Perpetual Calendar, and What Things Are Made Of (in progress) and co-author of a Butte Citizens for Preservation and Revitalization book on historic stained glass in Butte. He complied a Butte-Anaconda Copperway Guidebook. He's an appointed member of the Butte-Silver Bow County Historic Preservation Commission and is the Tours & Guidebook Chairman for the Vernacular Architecture Forum coming to Butte in 2009. Dick works with the Clark Fork Watershed Education Project and the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, as well as on oil exploration projects around the world as part of his consulting business.

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