William Wallace Cook papers 1889-1919

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William Wallace Cook papers 1889-1919

William Wallace Cook (1867-1933) was an American author of westerns, adventure stories, and other popular fiction in the form of dime novels, serials and screen and stage plays. Some of his work appeared under the pen-name John Milton Edwards. Collection consists of correspondence, copyright records, contracts and royalty statements, story outlines, and related materials. Correspondence includes letters from publishers, producers, authors' associations, literary colleagues, and fans concerning Cook's writings. Other correspondence pertains to personal matters and Cook's mining interests in Arizona. Also, lists of published stories, copyright certificates, sales statistics, royalty statements, publishing contracts, and story outlines and character descriptions.

2.5 linear feet (5 boxes)

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Cook, William Wallace, 1867-1933

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William Wallace Cook (1867-1933) was an American author of westerns, adventure stories, and other popular fiction in the form of dime novels, serials and screen and stage plays. Some of his work appeared under the pen-name John Milton Edwards. From the description of William Wallace Cook papers, 1889-1919. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122485608 From the guide to the William Wallace Cook papers, 1889-1919, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archiv...

Sawyer, Eugene T. (Eugene Taylor), 1846-1924

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Mining engineer for Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. From the description of Sawyer letters, 1910-1912. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 42925527 Writer on the history of California. From the description of Eugene T. Sawyer autograph letter signed, 1922. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 232358083 City editor of the San Jose Mercury, and author of the History of Santa Clara County, Cal...

Craft, P. P

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Pawnee Bill, 1860-1942

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Pawnee Bill was a Wild West show impresario and late contemporary of Buffalo Bill Cody, with whom he was in partnership between 1908 and 1913. From the description of Pawnee Bill letter, 1931. (National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum). WorldCat record id: 61257714 Gordon W. Lillie (1860-1942) was born in Illinois and worked as an interpreter and schoolteacher at the Pawnee Indian Agency in what is now Oklahoma, starting in 1878. He later worked as an interpreter for th...

Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917

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Buffalo Bill was employed as a scout by the United States 5th Cavalry, 1868-1872. In 1869 he participated in the Battle of Summit Springs, Colorado, in which the 5th Cavalry defeated Cheyenne Indians. From the description of Letter : Saint Louis, Missouri, to Joseph Witherspoon Cook, Greenwood, South Dakota, 1896 May 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702162229 From the description of Letter : Saint Louis, Mo., to Joseph Witherspoon Cook, Greenwood, S.D., 1896 May 23. (Unkno...

Frank A. Munsey Company.

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Bedford-Jones, H. (Henry), 1887-1949

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Rathborne, St. George, 1854-

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Street and Smith Publications

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Street & Smith, or Street & Smith Publications, Inc., was a New York City publisher specializing in inexpensive paperbacks, magazines, and comic books. Founded in 1855 by Francis Scott Street and Francis Shubael Smith, most of their publications were of the type known as "pulp fiction" and "dime novels." Among its pulp fiction periodicals, Street & Smith published adventure and sea stories ( Air Trails, Do and Dare Weekly, Red Raven Library, Sea Stories Magaz...

Standish, Burt L., 1866-1945

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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell was a juvenile adventure radio program based on the novels by Gilbert S. Patten, written under the name Burt L. Standish. It was broadcast from March 26, 1934 until June 22, 1934, and again from Oct. 5, 1946 until June 4, 1949 on NBC. The later series (of which this collection is comprised) consisted of complete thirty minute episodes whose featured character was Frank Merriwell, Yale University athlete. The cast of the later series included: Lawson Zerbe as Fra...