Tombstone Travestry manuscript draft, ca. 1960-1960.

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Tombstone Travestry manuscript draft, ca. 1960-1960.

Summary: Typed draft, with corrections, of Frank Water's manuscript titled Tombstone Travesty which was later published as The Earp Brothers of Tombstone; the story of Mrs. Virgil Earp. Corrections are minor edits; overall the manuscript mirrors the published book.

.25 linear ft. (1 box)

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Earp family.

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Waters, Frank, 1902-1995

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Frank Waters, writer and editor, was born July 25, 1902, at the foot of Pike's Peak, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His father, who was part Cherokee died when Frank was 12 years old. It was his father who initially sparked Frank's interest in Indian culture. Waters attended Colorado College (Colorado Springs) from 1922-25 as an engineering student. He dropped out after his third year to take a job as a laborer in the Salt Creek, Wyoming oil fields. He later worked as an engineer for the Souther...