Southwest classics reread / compiled by Lawrence Clark Powell. 1971-1972.

Calvin, Ross, 1889-

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Ross Randall Calvin was born in Illinois in 1889. He attended De Pauw University (graduating in 1911), Harvard, where he got his Ph.D. in English in 1916, and the General Theological Seminary in New York City from 1920-1921. He served as an Episcopalian minister at the Church of the Good Shepard in Silver City, New Mexico, from 1927-1942, and at the St. James Church in Clovis, N.M. thereafter. He was the author of four noted publications as well as a contributor to numerous religious and regiona...

Comfort, Will Levington, 1878-1932

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Comfort was a southern California novelist, who ended his career as the messiah of a Hollywood cult. From the description of Papers, 1910-1932. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 155180744 American writer. From the description of Letter, 1928 May 19, South Pasadena, Calif., to Perry Walton. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184907503 U.S. novelist and newspaperman. From the description of Correspondence, 1920-1...

Garrard, Lewis Hector, 1829-1887

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Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-2001

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Lawrence Clark Powell was a noted writer and librarian. Powell was well-known for his writings on librarianship and the literature of the American Southwest, including books such as Books West Southwest and Southwest Classics. He served as head librarian at UCLA from 1944 to 1961, when he became the founding dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Library Service. After retiring from UCLA, Powell moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1971, where he served as a Professor in Residence at the University of Arizo...

White, Steward Edward, 1873-1946,

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Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930

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David Herbert Richards Lawrence was born September 11, 1885, in Eastwood, near Nottingham, to Arthur Lawrence, a coal miner, and Lydia Beardsall. He attended Nottingham University College, and in 1908 he took a teaching position at Davidson Road School in Croydon. Lawrence wrote in his spare time, and in 1911, with the help of Ford Maddox Hueffer, he published his first novel, The White Peacock . Poor health forced him to resign his teaching job this same year, at which time he bec...

Fergusson, Harvey, 1890-1971

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Author Harvey Fergusson was born in New Mexico and settled eventually in Berkeley, Calif. Most of his fiction is set in New Mexico, including his popular trilogy of novels Blood of the conquerers (1921), Wolf song (1927), and In those days (1929). His autobiographical novel Home in the West was published in 1945. From the description of Harvey Fergusson papers, 1906-1953. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122501735 ...

Browne, J. Ross (John Ross), 1821-1875

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American author, journalist, and government official. From the description of J. Ross Browne papers, circa 1840-1875. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 81540733 Irish-American traveler and author. From the description of Letter to Harper & Brothers, 1853 March 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 52128935 John Ross Browne was born in Beggar's Bush, Ireland, on February 11, 1821. After moving to the United States h...

La Farge, Oliver, 1901-1963

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Oliver La Farge studied anthropology at Harvard University where he took part in an archaeological expedition to northern Arizona where he studied Navajo ruins. He earned a Hemenway Fellowship that extended to graduate research in Guatemala with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University. While writing the report of his research trip, La Farge also began writing his first novel, Laughing Boy, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929. La Farge was a prolific writer, publishing 24 books...

Summerhayes, Martha, 1844-1926

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Army wife; Martha Summerhayes was born in Nantucket, married 2nd Lt. John W. Summerhayes and lived with him at various Western frontier army posts. She wrote "Vanished Arizona: Recollections of My Army Frontier Life" about her experiences. In Arizona, they served at Fort Mohave, Fort Whipple, and Fort Apache from 1874 to 1878. From the description of Summerhayes cookbooks, 1885-1925. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 44093457 ...

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Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932

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American author and educator; professor of history of art, Rutgers University. From the description of Autobiography, 1929. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 28743604 Librarian, art historian and critic, and professor of art at Rutgers College, of New Brunswick, N.J. From the description of My golden age : personal narrative of American life from 1861 to 1931, 1931. (New Jersey Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70958363 ...

Magoffin, Susan Shelby, 1827-1855

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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947

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American novelist and short-story writer. From the description of Letters, 1926-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122494991 Willa Cather was an American novelist and short story writer. From the guide to the Willa Cather literary manuscripts, 1926-1940, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) American novelist, journalist, and editor. From the description of Collection, 1908-1963. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research...