Charles L. Adams papers 1946-2002

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Charles L. Adams papers 1946-2002

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The collection consistsof material created and collected by Charles Adams in the course of hisresearch and teaching activities as a scholar of Frank Waters and a professorof English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Material includescorrespondence; transcripts and sound recordings of interviews with Waters;sound recordings of various seminars, lectures, and talks about Waters;typescripts of writings by and about Waters; photocopies, reprints, andexcerpts of published works by Waters; clippings and other printed material;teaching files; files relating to the Frank Waters Society; and other material.The collection documents Adams's academic career, which focused largely onWaters, and his role as a leading organizer of the scholarly and popularcommunities interested in Waters, particularly as founder of the Frank WatersSociety and editor of Studies in Frank Waters. The collection also sheds lighton the nature and organization of the community of interest that sprang uparound Waters's work, and provides a great deal of information about Waters inthe taped and transcribed interviews conducted by Adams and others.

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Adams, Charles L.

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Charles L. Adams (1929-2008) was a Frank Waters scholar and a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas from 1960 to 1999. He edited Frank Waters: A Retrospective Anthology (Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1985) and, with Waters, co-edited W. Y. Evans-Wentz's Cuchama and Sacred Mountains (Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1981). He was founder of the Frank Waters Society and editor of Studies in Frank Waters. Frank Waters (1902-1995) was an Amer...

Adams, Charles L.

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Charles L. Adams was born in Joliet, Illinois, May 11, 1929. He earned his B.A. from Michigan State, his M.A. from the University of Illinois, and his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. He was a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas from 1960 to 1999. Adams's specialty was modern literature, but he was particularly interested in the writings of Frank Waters, the southwestern novelist, essayist, biographer and non-fiction writer. Adams taught a two...

Frank Waters Society

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Waters, Frank, 1902-1995

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Frank Waters, writer and editor, was born July 25, 1902, at the foot of Pike's Peak, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His father, who was part Cherokee died when Frank was 12 years old. It was his father who initially sparked Frank's interest in Indian culture. Waters attended Colorado College (Colorado Springs) from 1922-25 as an engineering student. He dropped out after his third year to take a job as a laborer in the Salt Creek, Wyoming oil fields. He later worked as an engineer for the Souther...