Myra Ellen Jenkins papers 1500-1993 1916-1992

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Myra Ellen Jenkins papers 1500-1993 1916-1992

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Research materials and other papers of Dr. Myra Ellen Jenkins, late noted state historian of New Mexico. Many of the materials are Dr. Jenkins' photocopies of historically significant documents pertaining to New Mexico and adjacent regions of the American Southwest.

56 linear shelf feet (approximately 53,500 items, in 113 document cases and oversize flat boxes)

Fort Lewis College. Center of Southwest Studies

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New Mexico Commission of Public Records. bState Records Center and Archives

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Jenkins, Myra Ellen

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For a chronology of Dr. Jenkins' life and work, see the first folders in Box 1. For an obituary, see the Denver Post, June 28, 1993. The following is a reminiscence written by Robert W. Delaney, who was the founding director of the Center of Southwest Studies and a friend and colleage of Myra Ellen Jenkins. I Remember Myra / by Robert W. Delaney (published in the November 1993 issue of La Cronica de Nuevo Mexico, Issue No. 37) "For more than four decades, I k...