Byrd Gibbens

Elizabeth "Byrd" Gibbens (June 5, 1936 – December 20, 2023) was an American historian and professor.

Life

Gibbens was originally from Tyler, Texas, where she was born on June 5, 1936; she grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She became a nun in the Sisters of St. Joseph, but left the order in 1977.

she was a professor of English at the University of New Mexico. She also taught at the University of Arkansas.

She died on December 20, 2023.

Selected publications

• This is a Strange Country: Letters of a Westering Family, 1880-1906 (1988, University of New Mexico Press: )
• Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel, Byrd Gibbens, and Elizabeth Hampsten (2002, U of Nebraska Press:

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