Fife American collection, 1940-1976.

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Fife American collection, 1940-1976.

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Tapes, transcriptions of interviews, and musical notations of western songs, ballads, and poetry. Also includes bound typescripts of extracts concerning western folksongs from other collections: John Lomax papers (originals housed at the Texas Historical Society); Gordon Oregon collection (originals housed at the Library of Congress and Univ. of Oregon); Stella M. Hendren collection of western folksongs clipped from periodicals; Edwin Ford Piper collection (originals housed at University Archives, State University of Iowa); collection of folksongs from the Old Songs column of the Idaho Farmer, published by Pacific Northwest Farm Quad; and a typescript of three published works: Songs of the cowboys by N. Howard Thorp; The Song Companion of a Lone Star cowboy by Chas. A. Siringo; and Songs of the hills and mesas by Laurence White.

48 bound items.

Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7548806

Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library

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Fife Folklore Archives

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Beginning in 2008, Randy Williams, Bradford Cole and Robert Parson (Utah State University's Special Collections and Archives), Elaine Thatcher (the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies) and Barbara Middleton (the College of Natural Resources' Department of Environment and Society) collaborated to collect the oral histories of key land use managers and users of Logan Canyon [Utah]. Randy Williams, Elaine Thatcher and Barbara Middleton trained interviewers from the Logan Canyon L...

Fife, Alta (Alta Stevens), 1912-1996

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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 ...

Hendren, Stella M.

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White, Laurence R., 1908-

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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...

Gordon, Robert Winslow.

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Robert Winslow Gordon, born September 2, 1888 in Bangor, Maine, was one of the first and foremost authorities on American folksong. He studied and later taught at Harvard University; while teaching there he began research on folk poetry and song. In 1918 he accepted a position in the English Department at the University of California at Berkeley. During his tenure there he collected and recorded a vast array of folk song material from regions spanning the entire United States. He moved East in 1...

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...

Fife, Austin E.

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Austin Edwin Fife (1909-1986) was born in Lincoln, Idaho. Alta Stevens Fife (1912-1996) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Both were authors, folklorists, and the founders of the Fife Folklore Archive at Utah State University. From the description of Austin E. and Alta S. Fife papers, 1910-1996. (Utah State University). WorldCat record id: 71324624 Folklorist, author, and co-founder, with his wife, of the Fife Folklore Archive at Utah State University. From the de...

Pacific Northwest Farm Quad.

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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...