Peter T. Wild (April 25, 1940 – February 23, 2009) was a poet, historian, and professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, he grew up in and graduated from high school in Easthampton, Massachusetts.

Wild worked as a rancher and firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service, and served as a lieutenant with the U.S. Army in Germany."Peter T. Wild, professor, poet". The Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 11, 2009 Wild earned his M.F.A. in 1969 from the University of California, Irvine.Freed, Walter; Greiner, Donald J. (ed.) (1980). "Peter Wild". Dictionary of Literary Biography: Vol. 5, American Poets since World War II, First Series Part 2: L–Z . Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research. pp. 390 ff. . ; also available from BookRags at Dictionary of Literary Biography on Peter Wild He then began teaching for nearly 40 years and wrote over 2,000 poems; also, he edited or wrote some 80 fiction and non-fiction books, largely dealing with the American West.He became the leading authority on John Charles Van Dyke and the high desert. University of Arizona, University Libraries: Papers of Peter Wild Regarding Research on John C. Van Dyke

His 1973 volume of poetry, Cochise, a eulogy to the Chiricahua Apache Indians and their leader Cochise, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. __NOTOC__ Bibliography Poetry

(print and on-line) (print and on-line)Reviewed at:

(Editor, with Frank Graziano; print and on-line)Features poems from John Haines, Richard Hugo, William Matthews, Reg Saner, Richard Shelton, Gary Soto, William Stafford, and David Wagoner.

University of Utah Press – Salt Lake City (as editor) Contains selections from Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, James O. Pattie, Horace Greeley, William Gilpin, John Wesley Powell, Clarence E. Dutton, John G. Bourke, John C. Van Dyke, D. H. Lawrence, J. Frank Dobie, Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey, Ann Zwinger, Peter Reyner Banham. Edited with Dean Saxton and Lucille Saxton Republished as: Reviewed in: "The New Desert Reader." (Brief article)(Book review). Internet Bookwatch. Midwest Book Review. 2006. and "The New Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions". (Brief Article)(Book Review). Reference & Research Book News. Book News Inc. 2006.

(print and on-line) (print and on-line) Boise State University Western Writers Series (BSUWWS #) – Boise, Idaho Alberto Ríos (#131). 1998. pp. 51. . Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (#101). 1991. pp. 51. . (print and on-line) Ann Zwinger (#111). 1993. pp. 51. . Barry Lopez (#94). 1984. pp. 49. . Clarence King (#48). 1981. pp. 46. . Desert Literature: The Early Period (#146). 2001. pp. 51. . Desert Literature: The Middle Period: J. Smeaton Chase, Edna Brush Perkins, and Edwin Corle (#138). 1999. pp. 53. . Desert Literature: The Modern Period (#144). 2000. pp. 52. . Enos Mills (#36). Cover design and illustration by Arny Skov. 1979. pp. 47. . George Wharton James (#93). 1990. pp. 52. . J. Ross Browne (#157). 2003. pp. 49. . James Welch (#57). 1983. pp. 49. . John C. Van Dyke: The Desert (#82). 1988. pp. 52. . John Haines (#68). 1985. pp. 51. . John Nichols (#75). 1986. pp. 52. . Theodore Strong Van Dyke (#121). 1995. pp. 54. . The Shady Myrick Research Project – Johannesburg, California

A biography of South, who wrote a series of highly popular "Desert Refuge" articles (1940–1946) in Desert Magazine about his primitive life on the desert.

Other publishers: (print and on-line) (print and on-line) Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier. Van Dyke, Dix. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 183. . (print and on-line)Reviewed by: Steeples, Douglas (April 1, 2000, copyright Summer 2008). "Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier Town." Montana: The Magazine of Western History. Montana Historical Society. and Yardley, Jonathan. (December 17, 1997). "Desert Solitaire; A Quirky Chronicle of Life in the Mojave". The Washington Post. Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive. (print and on-line)

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Peters, Robert (October–November 1974). "Mud Men Mud Women". Margins. Vol. 14. pp. 57 ff. Republished in Robert Peters (1979). The Great American Poetry Bake-off. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. pp. 274. . (print and on-line) Seavey, Ormond (Spring 1975). "Peter Wild: An Introduction". New York: Little Magazine. Vol. 9, pp. 4–10. (Available in the Little Magazine archive, 1965–1988, at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC): University of Texas at Austin, .)

External links University of Arizona Archives: Papers of Peter Wild 1989–2004 – an index of Wild's research regarding John C. Van Dyke,