Wyoming Arts Council

John Ravage debuts "Teapot Dome" novel


From a UW press release:

Retired University of Wyoming Professor John W. Ravage will sign copies of his new novel, “Slick & the Duchess,” Friday, Aug. 3, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at the UW Bookstore in the Wyoming Union in Laramie.

Subtitled “The Teapot Dome Scandal and the Death of Warren Harding,” the book depicts the Harding administration as “one of the most corrupt U.S. governments of the 20th century,” Ravage says. It was published by Outskirts Press in Parker, Colo.

“The 1920s witnessed some of the worst muck-raking journalism in this country’s history,” he says. “Ironically, that same approach to news-gathering also helped expose the weaknesses of Harding’s administration and those who supported him.”

Ravage was a professor of mass media and adjunct professor of African American studies at UW. He taught writing for television and film, mass media theory and film history, and offered the first black western history course. His photo exhibition “Black Pioneers of Wyoming” still tours from its base at UW’s American Heritage Center.

A member of Western Writers of America, Ravage has researched black pioneers, homesteaders, cowboys, men and women while writing and lecturing nationwide on the topics. He collects images of black pioneers, and his collection of images by the African American photographer James Presley Ball will form a major exhibition at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry in February 2008.

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