Byrd Gibbens


Elizabeth "Byrd" Gibbens 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 Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel, Byrd Gibbens, and Elizabeth Hampsten (2002, U of Nebraska Press: