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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Talk: Joe De Yong: A Life in the West". Santa Barbara Historical Museum. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
- 1 2 "Montana Artist Is On Way To Success" . The Billings Weekly Gazette. Billings, Montana. August 14, 1923. p. 12. Retrieved December 12, 2018– via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 3 "Work of Joe De Yong featured in gallery" . Santa Maria Times. Santa Maria, California. September 15, 1976. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Gagliasso, Dan (Autumn 2000). "Joe De Yong and Hollywood". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 50 (3): 2 – via ProQuest.
- 1 2 "Images from the Joe De Yong & Richard J. Flood Collection". National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
- ↑ "Western art dealer, collector Flood dies" . Great Falls Tribune. Great Falls, Montana. September 23, 1993. p. 12. Retrieved December 12, 2018– via Newspapers.com.
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