Fife American Collection 1940-1976

Piper, Edwin Ford, 1871-1939

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Edwin Ford Piper was born in 1871 in Auburn, Nebraska, a few miles west of the Missouri River. As farmers moved in and rangeland disappeared, his family moved farther west in Nebraska. While he was growing up, he listened to the songs, rhymes, square dancing calls, prayer meeting calls of the hired hands, hobos, itinerant fiddlers -- anyone who created music. He also learned songs from his mother Lucinda and his sister Ella. These folk expressions had a great effect upon Piper. In 1893, he enter...

Lomax, John A. (John Avery,), 1867-1948

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Collector and publisher of North American folk songs, born in Mississippi; settled near Meridian, Texas (1869); served University of Texas as secretary to the president and to alumni organizations until 1917. He published collections of folk songs (1910, 1927-1947) and a memoir (1947); and served as curator, Archive of American Folksong, Library of Congress. Married Bess Baumann Brown (1904), who died in 1931, and Ruby R. Terrill (1934). Fathered four children: Shirley Lomax Mansell Duggan; John...

Hendren, Stella M.

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White, Laurence R., 1908-

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Fife, Austin E.

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The Austin and Alta Fife Fieldwork Collection is comprised of the original fieldwork (acetate discs, reel-to-reel field recordings and field notes) and slides gathered/taken by the Fife's between the 1940s and late 1970s. Using summer vacations and weekends, the Fifes traveled all over the west–most intensively in their native Utah–with a camping trailer, recording equipment, camera and stenographic materials to collect the folklife of the American West, including cowboy songs, Morm...

Siringo, Charles A., 1855-1928

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Siringo was a cowboy and author who also worked for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency in the early 20th century. From the description of Charles Siringo papers 1896-1928. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37235952 Siringo wrote A Texas Cowboy, A Cowboy Detective, Two Evil Isms, Lone Star Cowboy, and Riata and Spurs. Pinkerton's Detective Agency suppressed the publication of Two Evil Isms, and charged Siringo with criminal libel, causing him to flee Chic...

Fife, Alta (Alta Stevens), 1912-1996

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Pacific Northwest Farm Quad.

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Thorp, N. Howard (Nathan Howard), 1867-1940

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Nathan Howard Thorp was an author of cowboy songs, poems, riddles, and short stories. From the description of Nathan Howard Thorp papers, 1936. (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 37799133 From the guide to the Nathan Howard Thorp Papers, circa. 1930s, (New Mexico State Records Center and Archives) N. Howard (Nathan Howard) "Jack" Thorp (1867-1940) began collecting and writing cowboy songs in 1889, and his publications include: Songs of the cowboys (1908 ...

Gordon, Robert Winslow

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Robert Winslow Gordon was one of the first and foremost authorities on American folksong. Gordon was born on September 2, 1888 in Bangor, Maine. He was the eighth descendant in a direct line from Alexander Gordon, a Scotsman who came to the colonies as a political prisoner in 1652. In 1906 Gordon attended Harvard University on scholarship to the English Department. By 1912 he was teaching within that department and he then began his research into folk poetry. Gordon's in...