Quiet right-hand man for 40-plus years to legends Belton Mouras, Gretchen Wyler, & Tippi Hedren Vernon Weir, 74, died from a stroke on December 6, 2021. Born on March 8, 1947, Weir attended Normandy Senior High School in St. Louis, Missouri, then earned a B.A. in political science and government from the University of Missouri […]
How the late “Dances With Wolves” author Michael Blake earned the Animal Protection Institute “Humanitarian of the Year” award
Michael Blake, 69, author of the novel and screenplay Dances With Wolves, died on May 2, 2015 in Tucson, Arizona, his longtime home. The capsule biographies accompanying Blake’s publications for more than 20 years mentioned not only his Oscar and Golden Globe awards for Dances With Wolves, but also that he had once been named […]
Ted Crail, 85, for 25 years vice president of the Animal Protection Institute
Ted Lee Crail, 85, longtime vice president of creative affairs for the Animal Protection Institute, died on April 16, 2014 in Kalispell, Montana. Born in Wolf Point, Montana, Crail spent most of his childhood in Kalispell, and returned there in 2006 with his companion Maria Arnold, whom he married on February 10, 2014. His […]
Animal rights movement pioneer Belton Mouras, 90
Began with raccoon rescues Belton Paul Mouras, 90, died on May 14, 2014 at his home in Sacramento, California. The son of a disabled sharecropper from the Louisiana bayou country, Belton Mouras spoke only Cajun French until he started school at age eight. While other boys of the time and place trapped and hunted, Mouras […]