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'''Laura Vernon Hamner''' (July 17, 1871 &ndash; September 20, 1968) was an [[United States|American]] [[author]], ranch [[historian]], [[journalist]], [[radio]] commentator,  [[educator]], and public official from the [[Texas]] Panhandle. She was informally known in her later years as "Miss Amarillo," a reference to her adopted city of [[Amarillo]].<ref>Ranching exhibits, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas, include reference to Laura Vernon Hamner.</ref>​

'''Laura Vernon Hamner''' (July 17, 1871 &ndash; September 20, 1968) was an [[United States|American]] [[author]], ranch [[historian]], [[journalist]], [[radio]] commentator,  [[educator]], and public official from the [[Texas]] Panhandle. She was informally known in her later years as "Miss Amarillo," a reference to her adopted city of [[Amarillo]].<ref>Ranching exhibits, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas, include reference to Laura Vernon Hamner.</ref>​

==Background==​

==Background==

Born in [[Tennessee]] to James Henry Hamner and the former Laura Lula Hendrix, Laura was educated at Miss Higbee's School for Young Ladies in [[Memphis]] and Peabody College in [[Nashville]], She also studied at the [[University of Chicago]]. Miss Hamner, who never married, was a [[teacher]] for many years. From 1913 to 1921, she served as the appointed postmistress at Claude in Armstrong County east of Amarillo. From 1922 to 1938, she was the Potter County school superintendent, a position which brought her to Amarillo, where she resided for the remainder of her life.<ref name="hbook">{{cite web|url=[http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhadb Handbook of Texas Online|title=Hamner, Laura Vernon|author=Deolece M. Parmelee|publisher=The Handbook of Texas on-line|accessdate=December 14, 2019}}</ref> Hamner lived for years in the Herring Hotel in Amarillo, owned by then [[Mayor]] Ernest O. Thompson, later a long-term chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission.

Born in [[Tennessee]] to James Henry Hamner and the former Laura Lula Hendrix, Laura was educated at Miss Higbee's School for Young Ladies in [[Memphis]] and Peabody College in [[Nashville]], She also studied at the [[University of Chicago]]. Miss Hamner, who never married, was a [[teacher]] for many years. From 1913 to 1921, she served as the appointed postmistress at Claude in Armstrong County east of Amarillo. From 1922 to 1938, she was the Potter County school superintendent, a position which brought her to Amarillo, where she resided for the remainder of her life.<ref name="hbook">{{cite web|url=[http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhadb Handbook of Texas Online|title=Hamner, Laura Vernon|author=Deolece M. Parmelee|publisher=The Handbook of Texas on-line|accessdate=December 14, 2019}}</ref> Hamner lived for years in the Herring Hotel in Amarillo, owned by then [[Mayor]] Ernest O. Thompson, later a long-term chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission.

*''Short Grass and Longhorns'' ([[University of Oklahoma]] Press, 1943.<br>​

*''Short Grass and Longhorns'' ([[University of Oklahoma]] Press, 1943.<br>​

*Hamner's article in ''[[Reader's Digest]]'' (1947) introduced the [[African American]] former [[cowboy]] Matthew Bones Hooks of Amarillo to a national readership.​

*Hamner's article in ''[[Reader's Digest]]'' (1947) introduced the [[African American]] former [[cowboy]] Matthew Bones Hooks of Amarillo to a national readership.​

 

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