Jack Schaefer Papers 1920-1968

Steele, Wilbur Daniel, 1886-1970

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American short-story writer, novelist and dramatist. From the description of ALS, 1926 Sept. 26, Nantucket, to Mrs. Helen Warren Harrison, Toledo. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122500032 American writer. From the description of ALS, 1960 Nov. 6, Old Lyme, Conn., to Don E. Connors, Phoenix Union High School. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122500097 Author, Wilbur Daniel Steele was born in 1886 in Greensboro, North Carolina. He traveled widely in Africa a...

Austin, Mary, 1868-1934

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Mary Hunter Austin has variously been identified as a feminist, naturalist, mystic, author, and even "woman of genius." She was one of the leading literary figures of her time, the author of 27 books and more than 250 articles, stories, poems and other short pieces. In 1900, Mary Austin settled in Carmel and became one of the founders of the literary colony. In 1918, Austin traveled to New Mexico, hoping to continue on to Mexico to conduct research on folk traditions. In New Mexico she was contr...

Chisum, John Simpson, 1824-1884

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Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914

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Adolph Bandelier was a prominent archaeologist in the Southwest and Latin America. His second wife Fanny Ritter Bandelier was intimately involved with his professional career, most often as a translator. The Bandeliers' were in Spain, locating and translating Spanish documents pertaining to the Southwest, at the time of Adolph's death in 1914. Fanny Ritter Bandelier finished the work in Spain, returned to the United States, and taught at Fisk University until her death in 1936. From ...

McGillycuddy, Valentine, 1849-1939

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Dr. Valentine Trant O'Connell McGillycuddy was an United States army doctor. From the description of Northwest Boundary Survey diary, 1874-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702126639 Dr. Valentine Trant O'Connell McGillycuddy was a doctor with the United States Army in 1876-77. From the description of Army expedition notebook, 1876-1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702126632 Medical doctor. From the description of Diary, 1876-1877. (Unk...

Stevens, Montague, 1859-1953

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Montague Stevens was born in 1859 in India. In 1881, he moved to the West having been drawn to this region of the United States after a hunting expedition during vacation from law school. Stevens later resided in New Mexico where he pursued the hunting of grizzly bears and sheep ranching with the help and teachings of local employees. He also served as ranch manager for General Wood. The hunting of grizzly bears is perhaps his most noted accomplishment and is of central importance to his book, M...

Schaefer, Jack, 1907-....

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Jack Warner Schaefer, born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1907, though not a westerner by birth, is best known for his western novels. In fact, the Encyclopedia of Frontier and Western Fiction calls Schaefer "One of the most outstanding authors of Western fiction to emerge after World War II.." Schaefer became a novelist later in his life. Schaefer was raised in Ohio, where he attended Oberlin College. There, he specialized in Greek, Latin, and creative writing. He graduated from that insti...