This is an effort to organize materials by various parts of Roy Bandy's life and career, as well as provide bits of information about certain interesting things.

Miscellaneous Bandy Writings

1885 - 1904 Early years

Bandy Manuscript - Received May 2022
Pages 3/155 through 14/155 of this manuscript provide Bandy's account of growing up in Missouri.

1905 - 1907 First surveying in Wyoming

1907 - 1910 Tunnels and canals

1911 - 1913 Surveying in Wyoming as GLO employee

1912 Breakfast on the Big Horns

1912 Crossing the Big Horn River

1914 - 1930 Surveying in Montana as GLO employee

1931 - 1933 Surveying revised Yellowstone National Park boundaries

1936 Retracing the North Boundary of Wyoming

1936 Surveying the area east of Pryor Mountains

Transcription of undated article by W.R. Bandy
This seems to be the most comprehensive version of the survey of the area in the east Pryor Mountains and mentions that Roy Romberg was deceased at the time of writing. Bandy states “In the nearly thirty years that have elapsed . . .”, which indicates this was written around 1966. This is the only known version that records the township in which they worked, T8S R28E PMM.

Billings Gazette 1966-02-13 - Crew Surveys the 'Impossible'

Helena Independent Record 1966-02-13 - W.R. Bandy Relates Task of Surveying Rugged Pryors

Bandy Manuscript - Received May 2022
Pages 130/155 through 134/155 of this manuscript provide Bandy's telling of this story. It begins "This is the beginning of another recording by W.R. Bandy in August 1970, ..."

Undated - Public Land Survey System

Public Land Surveys - History and Accomplishments
This appears to have been prepared for a group presentation by Bandy. He states he is an employee of the BLM, which would date this document at sometime between 1946 and 1954.

Autobiographical writings

The Surveyor - A Good Life
Begins with childhood in Missouri, then going to Wyoming, learning about surveying and engineering, working on irrigation projects, working for the General Land Office in Wyoming and Montana, training young mules, naming four peaks while surveying the revised boundaries of Yellowstone National Park, selling the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on the idea of using re-established section corners as control for aerial mapping of Reclamation projects, using anthills as photographically identifiable points, and serving as a consultant on land-ownership issues on lands innundated by Garrison Dam during his first two years of retirement.

Twenty-Five Years Among the Grizzlies
Beginning with his introduction the the West and its wildlife at Garland, Wyoming in 1905, fascination with horse-drawn freight wagons, life in survey camps, pack trains, training young mules, packers, camp cooks, camp beds, field boots, the merits of the solar transit, encounters with grizzly bears, wild horses, mountain lions, black bears, Inez meeting William F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody, more grizzlies, wolves, and finally a bull buffalo.