C.L. Sonnichsen papers, 1861-1991, bulk 1921-1991.

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C.L. Sonnichsen papers, 1861-1991, bulk 1921-1991.

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Books consists chiefly of Sonnichsen's manuscripts and includes proofs, photos, reviews, and correspondence. Research materials includes correspondence, field notes, subject files, oral history interviews, and newspaper clippings. Correspondence contains both business and personal exchanges between Sonnichsen and friends, family, fellow authors, former students, professors, and publishers. Correspondents include Haldeen Braddy, Frank Dobie, Francis Fugate, J. Evetts Haley, and Carl Hertzog. Other writings contains both published and unpublished works by Sonnichsen and others, including clippings, speeches, lectures, reviews, articles, manuscripts, subject files, and theses. Academic contains materials from Sonnichsen's personal education and teaching career, including his Ph. D. thesis, lecture notes, unpublished student papers, correspondence, yearbooks, and family photos. Associations contains materials pertaining to 17 organizations Sonnichsen was involved with, including correspondence and newsletters. Biographical contains materials about Sonnichsen's life in Arizona, awards he received, and events he attended, including newspaper clippings, yearbooks, scrapbooks, photos, certificates, a list of his library books, and a vita. Media consists of both cassette and other magnetic tapes, and a phonographic recording. Realia consists of materials in varying formats, some of which are oversized, including awards, foreign currency, maps, patches, photos, posters, branding irons, and reviews.

207 boxes, 4 oversized folders (74.5 linear ft.)

University of Texas at El Paso

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SNAC Resource ID: 7380212

University of Texas at El Paso

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Fugate, Francis L., 1915-1992

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Author, editor, and UTEP English professor. Born July 15, 1915, in Ottumawa, Iowa, he was the son of James LeRoy and Carrie Leona (Bowie) Fugate. He received his BA and BJ from the University of Missouri in 1939. He attended graduate school at the University of Chicago from 1943-1944 and the University of Oklahoma from 1947-1949. He worked as an advertising manager in Florida and Oklahoma before coming to El Paso to teach English at Texas Western College (now the Univers...

Hertzog, Carl 1902-1984

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Carl Hertzog was founder and Director of the Texas Western Press and noted typographer and book designer. From the description of Henry Ingram collection of Carl Hertzog material. 1964-1981. (Texas Wesleyan University). WorldCat record id: 15716952 Book designer, typographer, and printer. Born in 1902 as Jean Carl Hertzog in Lyons, France. Hertzog came to El Paso, Texas in 1923 to work for W.S. McMath & Co. In 1934, he started his own print shop,...

Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964

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J. Frank Dobie was a noted Texas author and English professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He was also editor of the Texas Folklore Society's publications during the 1930's and 1940's. From the description of Letter : to W.A. Philpott, 1938 April 12. (University of Texas at Arlington). WorldCat record id: 22699684 Historian, author, folklorist. Born in 1888 on a ranch in Live Oak County, Texas, Dobie was awarded his B.A. by Southwestern University (1910), M.A. by Co...

Braddy, Haldeen, 1908-1980

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Professor in the English Department at UTEP and author of many works pertaining to the Southwest. From the description of Haldeen Braddy papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 37162569 ...

Haley, J. Evetts (James Evetts), 1901-1995

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Born July 5, 1901. Raised in Midland, Texas. Worked his family's ranch along the Pecos River. Graduated West Texas State University. Fired from University of Texas in 1936 for denouncing President Roosevelt. Director of Institute of Americanism at Texas Technological College. Known for his books and articles on Southwestern frontier. Author of A Texan Look at Lyndon: A Study in Illegitimate Power (1964). From the description of Letter, 1954. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record i...

University of Texas at El Paso

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Sonnichsen, C. L. (Charles Leland), 1901-1991

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Biographical note: Historian and author; Sonnichsen was a professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso for over forty years. He wrote or edited 34 books and numerous articles during his career including "Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocker" in 1974, and "Tucson the Life and Times of An American City," in 1987. From the description of Sonnichsen research collection, 1972-1991. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 50710487 ...