In the first paper, Bernard Spilka chronicles the early events in the life of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, the regional psychological society, arguing that its relatively small size contributed to the continuing unity of the field in the region. This unity is contrasted with the divisive fragmentation seen in the larger regional, and in the national, psychological associations. Next, Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., examines the image of psychology as it was depicted in newspapers of the Rocky Mountain region during the nineteenth century and early in the twentieth century. In the third paper, David Chiszar and Michael Wertheimer briefly sketch the biography of Margaret Altmann, a pioneer descriptive ethologist and developmental comparative psychologist who spent years studying the behavior of large animals in the magnificent and rugged terrain in the Grand Tetons and Jackson Hole region of Wyoming. The fourth paper provides personal recollections of Phillip A. DuBois, of his teaching of psychology during the 1930s in Idaho and New Mexico. In the last paper, Amado Padilla documents the history of research on psychological testing of Mexican-Americans: by 1900 Anglos had pushed earlier southwestern natives into ethnic minority status. Padilla's paper reveals how the interest in and prejudice against ethnic minorities endemic throughout the nation during the early part of this century was displayed in the Southwest.