Frederick Merk

**Frederick Merk, Teacher and Scholar:** A Tribute Rodman W. Paul Western Historical Quarterly IX (2): 141-148, April 1978. At the request of WHQ, Rodman W. Paul wrote this tribute to Frederick Merk (August 15, 1887 - September 24, 1977). Paul is Harkness Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology and is President of the Western History Association. At the close of last September, when members of the Western History Association were making final revisions in the papers they …