[2] After graduating from Los Angeles High School, Greever matriculated at Pomona College and received his B.A.
During WW II he was from 1942 to 1946 in the U.S. Army, enlisting as a Private and rising to the rank of Technical Sergeant.
[1] He was on sabbatical for the academic year 1958–1959 at Berkeley, California, where he did most of the research for his book Bonanza West.
His book Arid Domain: The Santa Fe Railway and Its Western Land Grant (1st edition, 1954) won a 1954 prize for the annual best "first book" in Pacific American history from the American Historical Association's Pacific Branch.
She was an historian and during WW II worked for the U.S. Navy on decoding the Japanese naval cipher.