He returned to Yale after the war and earned a bachelor’s degree in 1948. His father, William, was a steel company executive who had a great interest in western Americana.Īt Yale University, the younger Holliday majored in history, but his education was interrupted by World War II service in the Pacific as a second lieutenant in the Navy. “No one writes better about California’s irresistible past,” Burns said several years ago.īorn Jaquelin Smith Holliday II in Indianapolis on June 10, 1924, Holliday preferred to go by his initials friends called him Jim. Documentarian Ken Burns, who featured Holliday in his PBS series “The West,” called himself a “huge fan” of the Gold Rush expert.
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