ABSTRACT
Hoover Mackin’s early work was in geomorphology in the Appalachians and in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming, and he always regarded himself as primarily a geomorphologist. For a bibliography and a list of honors that Hoover Mackin received during his lifetime, the reader is referred to these memoirs. During the Iron Springs work Mackin became interested in the problems of ignimbrites. He demonstrated the persistence of recognizable sequences of ash flows over areas of thousands of square miles and emphasized that they had been emplaced on very low gradients. Hoover was an insomniac and a noisy sleeper; on trips, nobody who knew better ever shared a room with him. But even more legendary was his restlessness in bed; pictures on the wall and lamps on bedside tables had to be moved to safer places, far from the bed. Hoover enjoyed geology, people, ideas, travel; in short, life. His bibliography, like his life, was far too short.
