Dear John:

About a year ago I sent you digital photographs of Heart Mountain Camp. One of the nurses at the camp, Velma Berryman Kessel, was from my home town. Velma kept a diary and few years before she passed away she had it typed, Xeroxed and made up several little booklets.

From: "Kurt Webber" kwebber@btigate.com
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:24:11 -0800

There is 119 pages in the booklet. There is no summary. It simply a daily diary. I can scan a few pages to you each day.

From: "Kurt Webber" kwebber@btigate.com
Subject: Diary Acknowledgements
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 12:03:39 -0800

John:

Here is the Diary Acknowledgement page. Velma Berryman Kessel was born and raised at Deaver, Wyoming. I scanned this at 200 dpi and then reduced it down. If you need to enlarge you should be able to do so with out losing quality. Velma's photo and book cover that I sent earlier was scanned at 75 dpi, therefore, will not be very high quality if you have to enlarge. Let me know if you want me to resend.--Kurt W. Webber, Bismarck, ND (formally of Frannie, Wyoming)

From: Debra Madsen debramadsen@earthlink.net
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 4:00 PM
To: kwebber@btigate.com; CJohnYu.96@alum.mit.edu
Subject: Velma Berryman Kessel

Messrs Webber and Yu:
Our firm represents Velma Kessel, the author and copyright owner of Behind Barbed Wire. Your posting of the book on the internet is an infringement of Mrs. Kessel’s copyright. Therefore, we request that you remove the book posting immediately. The book may be purchased directly from Mrs. Kessel at P.O. Box 502, Powell, WY 82435 for $10.00 plus mailing costs. (Contrary to Mr. Webber’s email, Mrs. Kessel is alive.)

Please contact me should you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Donald P. Prehoda, Jr.

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307-742-7896 (phone)
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In Reply:

Well this is interesting - I've read about things like this happening to other people on the internet, but here I am getting one of these emails myself. It certainly is great to hear that Velma may be alive. I have the utmost respect for her endeavors and her work, so I am taking down the page for the moment. However, it occurs to me that just about anybody on the internet could make such a claim for whatever reason, so I would like to request some verification that what you've said is true.

In particular it would be great if you could provide me with a quick way to contact Mrs. Kessel (does she have email?) ...I'd like to ask her permission to include excerpts, if not the whole, of her writing because I think it is important for historical reasons. In any case, I've done a little searching on the internet, and pages like http://www.uwyo.edu/special/wch/newswinter99.htm imply that Velma was at least still alive on September 15, 1998. In addition, the bibliography at http://hosts.tctwest.net/www.heartmountain.org/mediabib.htm and author information at http://cowgirl.state.wy.us/wywriters/record.cfm?AuthorID=1361 indicates her writing was self-published in 1992. It is for these reasons that I am taking down her page, although I would normally be a little more skeptical.

Thanks for your concern,
John
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From: Debra Madsen debramadsen@earthlink.net
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:12:49 -0700
To: "CJohnYu.96" CJohnYu.96@alum.mit.edu
Subject: Velma Berryman Kessel

Mr. Yu:

Thanks for your quick response to Mr. Prehoda's request that you remove Behind Barbed Wire from the web. You may contact Mrs. Kessel through her daughter Cheryl Kolesein

Thanks again,
Debra Madsen

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John:

Below is a photograph of the Methodist Church at Deaver. My father helped build the church and my mother was Sunday School Superentendent for years and years and years. My mothers funeral was in this church in July 24, 2000 and Dad's funeral was just 16 days later on August 8th

From: "Kurt Webber" kwebber@btigate.com
Subject: Map
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 04:30:13 -0800

John:

Velma mentions the towns of Lovell, Powell, and Deaver. Thought you might like to see a map of Northern Wyoming so you can see where these places are located. Our farm was located 3 miles east of Frannie, Wyoming. The High School was located at Deaver. I was born at the hospital at Lovell. Billings, Montana is located 80 miles north of Frannie.--Kurt

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