Volcanoes in History, in Theory, in Eruption by Fred M. Bullard Autographed

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Volcanoes in History, in Theory, in Eruption by Fred M. Bullard Autographed. Published in 1973, By The University of Texas … Read more Volcanoes in History, in Theory, in Eruption by Fred M. Bullard Autographed. Published in 1973, By The University of Texas Press, Austin Texas. Illustrated. Measures 9-1/2" x 6-1/2", 441 pages. There is also a newspaper article, a photograph of his home, an order Blanck and a Christmas Card from the Ballards.

Fred Mason Bullard was born July 20, 1901, on Kickapoo Indian lands, Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, where his father had Bullard homesteaded. He obtained the BS and MS degrees in Geology at the University of Oklahoma and his PhD degree from the University of Michigan in 1928. He worked for a few years as Field Geologist for the Oklahoma Geological Survey. He joined the faculty of the Department of Geology at UT-Austin in 1924. There he had a professional career in teaching and research for 70 years. Professor Bullard was known as an outstanding teacher of large introductory geology courses for more than four decades. A colleague once calculated the thousands of students that Bullard had taught and concluded that he probably taught the largest number of introductory geology students in North America. Many of these students made careers in geology and many became pioneers in the petroleum industry. He was greatly admired and loved by his students, colleagues and friends, and kept in touch with many of them over the many decades of his professional life. The span of his career offered him the chance to teach the children and grandchildren of his early students, and during his travels he constantly met people who came up to him to say, “Dr. Bullard, I was a student in your class in 19–“.
Professor Bullard also taught a course in volcanology and in the 1920s regularly taught the summer geology field course in central Texas. Some of his experiences were told in the Newsletter of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Professor Bullard traveled the world researching and teaching about Volcanoes. See less