Hazel Baker Denton Collection. [1907-1955].

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Hazel Baker Denton Collection. [1907-1955].

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The focus of this collection is the personal life and writings of Hazel Baker Denton. The writing series contains all of Denton's written work, both published and manuscript, and includes her long-running columns in Lincoln County newspapers as well as drafts for a book and college papers. The personal series consists of journals, correspondence and family artifacts including three scrapbooks. Though some of the journals and diaries do record personal feelings and thoughts, for the most part they are comments on daily activities. Three journals represent the years Denton served as an Assemblywoman for the Nevada State Legislature. Also included is family biographical information.

7 boxes (46 linear inches).

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7281393

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

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Nevada. Legislature. Assembly

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Denton, Hazel Baker, 1887-1962.

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Hazel Baker was born in Utah in 1887. She graduated from Ogden High School in 1907 with a teacher's certificate. She moved to Prince Mine in Nevada in 1914 to teach in a one room all-grade school, then to Caliente, Nevada, in 1916, to teach the first and second grades. In Caliente she met Floyd Howard Denton of Nebraska, a saloon owner and future under-sheriff of Caliente. They married in 1916 and had four children. Denton's civic and professional activities were considerable. She served as pres...