Barbara L. Dutrow (b. 1956)

Barbara Lee Dutrow was born in western Nebraska in 1956 to Harry Lee Dutrow, owner of a car dealership that sold all five makes of General Motor cars, and Winifred Alberta Dutrow, who served as an accountant for her husband's car dealership. Her first mineral purchase was an amethyst geode from...

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Published in:Rocks & minerals 2022-12, Vol.97 (6), p.568
Main Author: Grew, Edward S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aquatic birds
Automobiles
Collectors
Dutrow, Barbara Lee
Hunting
Minerals
Personal profiles
Precious metals
Reinforcement
Tourmaline
Water melons
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Summary:Barbara Lee Dutrow was born in western Nebraska in 1956 to Harry Lee Dutrow, owner of a car dealership that sold all five makes of General Motor cars, and Winifred Alberta Dutrow, who served as an accountant for her husband's car dealership. Her first mineral purchase was an amethyst geode from a rock shop near her family's goose blind used for hunting on the North Platte River, a reward for her hunting at about age eight. In the eighth grade, she had a superb Earth Science teacher (the year of the first Earth Day)--and it was then that she decided to become a geologist and study minerals. In high school, long before the internet, she discovered mail-order minerals--David New would send a list of minerals, and she would reply with a check. From him she bought her first tourmaline specimen, a doubly terminated watermelon tourmaline from the Pala mine in California, which she still owns. Now she buys them in person; she has attended the Tucson Mineral Show since 1989.
ISSN:0035-7529
1940-1191