Beal, Merrill D., 1898-1990 (Personal Name)

His A history of southeastern Idaho ... 1942.

His Sixty years of educational endeavors in Idaho ... 1984: t.p. (Merrill D. Beal; emeritus prof. of hist., Idaho State Univ., Pocatello, Idaho) p. i, etc. (Merrill Dee (Sam) Beal; b. 11/3/1898, Richfield, Utah)

Dict. of Amer. Scholars, 1982: (Beal, Merrill D.; b. Richfield, Utah, Nov. 3, 1898; Author: Story of Man in Yellowstone, 1949; History of Idaho, 1959; Intermountain Railroads, 1962; I will fight no more forever, 1963)

Snake River fork country (1935): t.p. (Samuel M. Beal)

OCLC database, Sept. 13, 2000 (hdgs.: Beal, Merrill D., 1898- ; Beal, Merrill Dee, 1898- ; usage: Merrill D. Beal, Merrill Beal, M.D. Beal, Merrill Dee Beal)

NUCMC data from Idaho Oral History Center, Idaho State Historical Society for His Interview, 1970 (Merrill D. Beal; also Merrill Beal; b. 1898)

SSDI, Mar. 2, 2004 (Merrill D. Beal; b. 3 Nov 1898; d. 27 Dec 1990; last residence: Tucson, Arizona)

Five men of Yellowstone, 2013: page 34 (Merrill Dee Beal, park ranger 1939-1966; born November 3, 1898, Richfield, Utah; taugh school in Rigby, Idaho; teacher at Ricks College) page 35 (began working at Yellowstone National Park at the age of 40 in 1939; in later years Beal took on an added name of Sam or Samuel and often signed documents as Samuel D. Beal) page 36 (author; retired from Park Service in 1966)

Register of the Merrill Dee Beal Papers, Brigham Young University-Idaho, website viewed 23 September 2013 (b. Richfield, Utah November 3, 1898; BS, 1921, University of Utah; taught 4 years of high school in Richfield and Rigby, Idaho; taught 38 years in college and university at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho and later at Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho; graduate degrees from California and Washington State University; author; worked in Yellowstone National Park)