Vachel Lindsay Collection 1925-1972

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Vachel Lindsay Collection 1925-1972

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Journalist, poet, and author, of Spokane, Wash., and Springfield, Ill.; b. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay. Clippings from Spokane, Wash., and Springfield, Ill., newspapers, relating to Lindsay's life, career, and critical evaluation, including his activities as journalist for the Spokane Spokesman-Review (1924-1929); photos of Lindsay, his wife, Elizabeth (Conner) Lindsay, Spokane teacher, and their children; reminiscence by Helen Johns entitled Vachel Lindsay's Visit to Gearhart and Longview, and letter from Lindsay to Johns; and sheets of printers' proofs from several of Lindsay's works.

4 in.

eng,

Eastern Washington State Historical Society/Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture Joel E. Ferris Research Library and Archives

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Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931

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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was born in Springfield, IL. He studied in Ohio, Chicago, and New York and acquired a reputation as a poet and lecturer. Lindsay became famous for his walk from Springfield, IL to New Mexico in 1912, and for an unusual method of writing poetry. In 1924 he arrived in Spokane where he worked as a columnist for the "Spokesman-Review". He returned to Springfield in 1929, and at the time of his death was a major figure in American poetry. From the description of Co...

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